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The Curtis Collection: 1847-1901 Issues continued...

1875 Continental Bank Note Co. Hard Paper Special Printing (Scott 167-180) continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
761 og Image90c Violet Carmine, Special Printing (177). Without gum as issued, well-centered with mostly complete perfs all around, beautiful deep color and crisp impression

VERY FINE AND CHOICE EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 1875 90-CENT CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE SPECIAL PRINTING. SCARCE IN SUCH CHOICE CONDITION.

Our recently updated census records for Scott 177 contain 46 copies. Only seventeen have perforations intact on all four sides, and of these only nine are confirmed as sound. Many have poor centering.

Unpublished Census No. 177-UNC-28. Ex Caspary. With 1957 and 1984 P.F. certificates. (Image)

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$ 24,000.00

SOLD for $8,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
762 og Image90c Violet Carmine, Special Printing (177). Without gum as issued, intense shade on bright fresh paper, scissors-separated as usual but leaving full intact perforations on three sides

VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 90-CENT CONTINENTAL HARD-PAPER SPECIAL PRINTING.

Our recently updated census records for Scott 177 contain 46 copies. Only seventeen have perforations intact on all four sides. Many have poor centering.

Unpublished Census No. 177-UNC-08. With 1952 P.F. and 2010 P.S.E. certificates (Image)

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$ 24,000.00

SOLD for $4,250.00
Will close during Public Auction
763 og Image2c Carmine Vermilion, Special Printing (180). Without gum as issued, fiery color and fine impression, full and intact perfs all around without any scissors-separation, certificate notes single tiny pinhole which is almost undetectable

FINE-APPEARING EXAMPLE OF THE 2-CENT CARMINE VERMILION CONTINENTAL BANK NOTE SPECIAL PRINTING. ONE OF THE RAREST SPECIAL PRINTINGS WITH ONLY 23 EXAMPLES RECORDED IN OUR CENSUS.

Our census of Scott 180, available at http://www.siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/180/180.pdf , records 23 examples of this rare Special Printing, one of which is in The New York Public Library collection. Only a dozen are confirmed as sound.

Census No. 180-UNC-03. Ex Lutwak, Zoellner and Puliafito. With 1978 P.F. certificate (Image)

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$ 77,500.00

SOLD for $23,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

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