• Login (enter your user name) and Password
    Please Login. You are NOT Logged in.

    Quick Search:

  • To see new sales and other StampAuctionNetwork news in your Facebook newsfeed then Like us on Facebook!

Login to Use StampAuctionNetwork.
New Member? Click "Register".

StampAuctionNetwork Extended Features

StampAuctionNetwork Channels
 
You are not logged in. Please Login so that we can determine your registration status with this firm. If you have never registered, please register by pressing the [Quick Signup (New to StampAuctionNetwork)] button. Then Login. Listen to Live Audio!


 
logo

The Curtis Collection: U.S. Revenues, Part 2 continued...

1898 Spanish-American War Provisionals
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
1294   Image1c Green, I.R. Overprint, Half Used as -1/2c (R154 var).Two diagonal bisects, tied by matching July. 14, 1898 blue double-oval datestamps on separate New York Plate Glass Insurance Company policies, first used with additional 1c and two 2c I.R. overprints (R154, R155), document reduced at bottom slightly affecting bisect, second is full document with pair of 2c stamps (R154), Very Fine, unlisted bisects, one of the provisional methods used to pay tax when the Bureau was unable to produce the new issue of revenue stamps for July 1898, ex Tolman (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
1295   Image10c Dark Green, "I.R." Overprint (R157). Lightly cancelled, light diagonal crease at bottom left, small repair at top right adding a small portion of the design, otherwise Very Fine, with 1998 P.F. certificate (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 $ 4,250.00

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
1296   Image1c Dark Yellow Green, Chapman Overprint (R158A). Fresh color, neat "Jul. 17, 1898" handstamp cancel leaves overprint clearly visible, faint diagonal crease at bottom right, small tears at top left and bottom center

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE ONE-CENT CHAPMAN OVERPRINT. ONLY NINETEEN COPIES ARE RECORDED IN TOTAL. ONE OF THE GREATEST REVENUE RARITIES.

According to Scott Catalogue, the 1c Trans-Mississippi was overprinted by the Purvis Printing Company with federal government approval. They were ordered by L. H. Chapman of the Chapman Steamboat Line, which operated freight-carrying steamboats along the Erie Canal. Only 250 stamps were produced; additionally, 250 were printed reading "I.R./P.I.D. & Son", for P.I. Daprix & Son, which served different ports along the same waterway.

In his privately published census, Larry Lyons records fourteen used and one unused copies of Scott R158A. Our records contain two additional used and two additional unused, for a total of 19.

Owner's "CSY" backstamp. With 2002 P.F. certificate. (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 $ 12,500.00

SOLD for $7,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

StampAuctionCentral and StampAuctionNetwork are
Copyright © 1994-2022 Droege Computing Services, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Mailing Address: 20 West Colony Place
Suite 120, Durham NC 27705
Back to Top of Page