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The World's Fair Collection of The 1893 Columbian Issue continued...

1893 Special Delivery, Production Varieties and Postal Stationery Errors
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
95° og Image10c Orange, Special Delivery (E3). Horizontal strip of three with wide bottom plate no. 552 and part imprint selvage, center stamp Mint N.H., side stamps single hinge mark, vibrant color as fresh as the day it was printed, well-balanced margins, few minor perf separations at top of little consequence as we are sure this will be broken, Extremely Fine, a beautiful multiple, the imprint and plate no. strip of four catalogues $4,000.00, Scott Retail as singles (Image)

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 1,275.00

SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
96° ogbl Image10c Orange, Special Delivery (E3). Block of nine, bottom left and bottom right stamps Mint N.H., others h.r., vibrant color, Fine, Scott Retail as singles (Image)

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 3,450.00

SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction
97° og Image1c Columbian (230). Bottom left corner selvage, imperforate between stamp and selvage at left, original gum, vertical crease in selvage area from foldover which caused the perforation error, few natural gum bends, Very Fine, rare and striking (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
98° ng Image2c Columbian, Imperforate (231 var). Vertical pair, unused (no gum), large margins, few flaws as in all known examples, Very Fine appearance, one ungummed damaged sheet was discovered in New York City in 1900, unlisted in Scott (Image)

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 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $3,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
99° og Image6c Columbian (235). Top imprint and plate no. 104 strip of four, original gum, with distinct double impression of "Z", imprint and plate no. 104, bright color, pos. 1, 3 and 4 with small tears, pos. 3 with additional tear and thin at top right, otherwise Fine, presumably the first impression was made on a second sheet of paper beneath the top, but overlapping in such a way that it came into contact with the imprint portion of the plate, the mostly blank sheet (with the imprint) was then placed on the press for the second full impression, unlisted in Scott, with 2013 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
100° nh Image8c Columbian (236). Mint N.H., with faint right-reading impression on back, Very Fine, the printing appears to be on the gum so this is not a true printed on both sides variety, it is still a very unusual item worth additional research, this should not be confused with an offset (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $110.00
Will close during Public Auction
101° og Image4c Columbian, Error of Color (233a). Original gum, single hinge mark, deep rich color in the true shade of the error on bright paper

FINE. A BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL-GUM EXAMPLE OF THE 4-CENT COLUMBIAN ERROR OF COLOR.

The 4c Columbian color error was caused by the use of a wrong batch of ink, and spectrographic analysis has shown that the blue inks of the 4c error and 1c Columbian have the same components.

Stamps from at least two panes reached collectors, and the few cancelled examples indicate that stamps used by the public came from additional panes. It is likely that a number of full sheets were printed using the wrong ink, and most of the stamps have simply been lost to philately.

Ex Rosenthal. With 1976 P.F. certificate. (Image)

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 $ 17,500.00

SOLD for $11,000.00
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102°   Image4c Columbian, Error of Color (233a). Wide to huge margins, intense color, neat strike of duplex cancel, faint narrow thins at top right, certificate describes an "internal paper rift at left center" which used to be called a wrinkle and left unmentioned

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. ONLY THIRTEEN USED EXAMPLES HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED AS GENUINE BY THE PHILATELIC FOUNDATION. ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES OF USED UNITED STATES PHILATELY AND OF THE POPULAR COLUMBIAN ISSUE.

The 4c Columbian color error was caused by the use of a wrong batch of ink, and spectrographic analysis has shown that the blue inks of the 4c error and 1c Columbian have the same components. Stamps from at least three panes reached collectors, and the few cancelled examples indicate that stamps used by the public came from at least one additional pane. It is likely that a number of full sheets were printed using the wrong ink, and most of the stamps have simply been lost to philately.

Our census of used Scott 233a, available at http://www.siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/233a/233a.pdf , contains 13 stamps certified as No 233a. One additional stamp was previously certified as the error, but received a recent certificate as the Dark Ultramarine sub-shade.

Census No. 233a-CAN-02. Ex A.T. Seymour. With 1947 and 2013 P.F. certificates. (Image)

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 $ 16,500.00

SOLD for $14,000.00
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103° nhbl Image4c Columbian, Error of Color (233a). Mint N.H. block of four with full imprint selvage at right, intense color in the deeper of the two shades, detailed impression, crisp paper

FINE-VERY FINE. A RARE MINT NEVER-HINGED BLOCK OF FOUR OF THE 4-CENT COLUMBIAN ERROR OF COLOR. VERY FEW MULTIPLES ARE KNOWN OF THIS DISTINCTIVE COLOR ERROR, AND EVEN FEWER ARE IN MINT NEVER-HINGED CONDITION. A GREAT RARITY OF THE ISSUE. ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE WITH THE FULL IMPRINT SELVAGE AT RIGHT.

The 4c Columbian color error was caused by the use of a wrong batch of ink, and spectrographic analysis has shown that the blue inks of the 4c error and 1c Columbian have the same components.

Stamps from at least two panes reached collectors, and the few cancelled examples indicate that stamps used by the public came from additional panes. It is likely that a number of full sheets were printed using the wrong ink, and most of the stamps have simply been lost to philately.

With 2005 P.F. certificate. (Image)

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 $ 150,000.00

SOLD for $80,000.00
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104° og Image2c Columbian, Dark Slate Error of Color, Cut Square (U349a). 39 x 39mm, bright color, Very Fine and rare, Porter Venn records only three mint entires of this great rarity (Image)

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 $ 2,500.00

SOLD for $1,600.00
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105° c Image5c Columbian, Slate Brown Error of Color (U350a). Legal-size, cancelled by "Washington D.C. May 24 3-30P 1897 Congress Postal Universel" machine cancel to C.F. Rothfuchs in Washington D.C., fresh and Very Fine, very scarce as only a handful are known used (Image)

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 $ 1,400.00

SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction

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