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The Golden Collection of U.S. Official Special Printings continued...

Post Office Department continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
596 S Image90c Post Office, Specimen Ovpt. (O56S). Without gum as issued, crisp impression, wide and balanced margins, few nibbed perfs, still Very Fine and choice, only 82 sold (Image)

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 $ 1,600.00

SOLD for $2,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
597 Sbl Image1c-2c Post Office, Specimen Ovpt. (O47S-O48S). Blocks of four, without gum as issued, 1c faint crease along perfs at upper left, the 2c is especially nice (and catalogues $3,250.00), Fine-Very Fine, scarce blocks (Image)

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 $ 3,725.00

SOLD for $2,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
598 Sbl Image1c Post Office, Specimen Ovpt. (O47S). Block of four, without gum as issued, natural s.e. at right, Fine-Very Fine (Image)

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 $ 475.00

SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
599 Sbl Image2c Post Office, Specimen Ovpt. (O48S). Block of six with nearly complete top imprint in selvage, without gum as issued, intact perfs at left, bright shade

FINE-VERY FINE. A VERY RARE BLOCK OF THE 2-CENT POST OFFICE SPECIAL PRINTING, SHOWING MOST OF THE IMPRINT AT TOP.

Scott Retail as block of four and two singles with no premium for the better position. (Image)

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 $ 3,900.00

SOLD for $2,700.00
Will close during Public Auction
600 S Image1c Post Office, Specimen Ovpt., Inverted Ovpt. (O47Sb). Without gum as issued, wide margins and well-centered

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF THE RARE INVERTED "SPECIMEN" OVERPRINT ON THE ONE-CENT POST OFFICE SPECIAL PRINTING. THIS IS THE ONLY INVERT ERROR AMONG THE SPECIAL PRINTINGS.

Although the 1c Post Office stamps were printed from a 200-subject plate, the sheets were divided into panes of 100 before overprinting. Therefore, only 100 of the inverted "Specimen" overprints could have been produced, and we do not know how many were sold. Only a small fraction of the number printed has been located. (Image)

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 $ 2,750.00

SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
601 S Image1c Post Office, Specimen Ovpt., Inverted Ovpt. (O47Sb). Without gum as issued, well-centered, detailed impression

VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE RARE INVERTED "SPECIMEN" OVERPRINT ON THE ONE-CENT POST OFFICE SPECIAL PRINTING. THIS IS THE ONLY INVERT ERROR AMONG THE SPECIAL PRINTINGS.

Although the 1c Post Office stamps were printed fro a 200-subject plate, the sheets were divided into panes of 100 before overprinting. Therefore, only 100 of the inverted "Specimen" overprints could have been produced, and we do not know how many were sold. Only a small fraction of the number printed has been located. (Image)

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 $ 2,750.00

SOLD for $1,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
602 S Image1c Post Office, Specimen Ovpt., Inverted Ovpt. (O47Sb). Without gum as issued, crisp impression, Fine, purple "H" backstamp, only one pane of 100 inverts was produced, far fewer examples have been reported (Image)

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 $ 2,750.00

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
603 S Image1c Post Office, Specimen Ovpt., Inverted Ovpt. (O47Sb). Without gum as issued, intense shade, Fine, only one pane of 100 inverts was produced, far fewer examples have been reported (Image)

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 $ 2,750.00

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
604 S Image1c Post Office, "Sepcimen" Error (O47Sa). Without gum as issued, intense shade, unusually fresh

FINE. A SOUND AND UNUSUALLY PRISTINE EXAMPLE OF THE ONE-CENT POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT "SEPCIMEN" ERROR.

With a sold quantity of 6,015, it is possible that 60 "Sepcimen" errors were released, but we do not know how the sheets were divided and sold, nor do we know if the entire print run had the error in Position 21. Reports of known examples are fewer than a dozen. This example is sound and much fresher than most we have seen. (Image)

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 $ 2,750.00

SOLD for $2,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
605 S Image1c Post Office, "Sepcimen" Error (O47Sa). Without gum as issued, intense shade

FINE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE ONE-CENT POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT "SEPCIMEN" ERROR.

With a sold quantity of 6,015, it is possible that 60 "Sepcimen" errors were released, but we do not know how the sheets were divided and sold, nor do we know if the entire print run had the error in Position 21. Reports of known examples are fewer than a dozen.

Ex Lewenthal and Kharash (Image)

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 $ 2,750.00

SOLD for $2,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
606 S Image3c Post Office, "Sepcimen" Error (O49Sa). Without gum as issued, scissors-separated but perforations are mostly intact except for a few at top

THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THE 3-CENT POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL PRINTING WITH "SEPCIMEN" ERROR. ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES OF SPECIAL PRINTINGS.

Only 91 copies of the 3c Post Office Special Printing were sold. Assuming that one sheet was divided and sold before starting on the next sequential sheet (we do not know if that, in fact, was the practice), then no more than one 3c Post Office "Sepcimen" error (Position 21) was sold. According to Combs, the existence of a 3c Post Office "Sepcimen" was reported by Konwiser in 1925 (see page 40 of Combs booklet), but it was not listed in the Scott Catalogue until 1971, two years after it was certified by Herbert Bloch of the Friedl Expert Committee.

With 1969 Friedl certificate. (Image)

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 E. $ 15,000-20,000

SOLD for $35,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

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