U.S. and Possessions Treasures of Philately from the Irwin Weinberg Inventory continued...

VERY FINE AND SCARCE PAIR OF THE 10-CENT PERF 12 COIL.

According to Johl (Volume 1, page 181), only 10,000 of the 10c Washington coil stamp were issued. They were made especially for a New York firm to send out advertising samples, similar to the 3c Orangeburg coil. Only a few rolls were sold to the firm, and the remaining rolls were distributed to some of the large post offices across the country. Dealers acquired several rolls, but because most contemporary collectors did not collect coils, many were used and destroyed.

With 2016 P.F. certificate (Image)

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VERY FINE. A RARE PLATE NUMBER SINGLE OF THE 5-CENT BLUISH PAPER.

The 5c is third rarest of the set and the rarest of the regularly issued Bluish Paper stamps. The 4c and 8c were released by postal officials and not sold through the post office.

With 1972 P.F. certificate (Image)

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FINE EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 8-CENT ON BLUISH PAPER.

According to Johl (Vol. 1, page 175), the only source of the 4c and 8c Bluish stamps was the archives of the Post Office Department. Approximately 80 of each were traded for rare stamps missing from the archives.

With 1957 (for a block of four) and 2001 P.F. certificates (Image)

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A FINE AND RARE GUIDE LINE PAIR OF THE 1910 2-CENT PERF 12 COIL WITH SINGLE-LINE WATERMARK, SCOTT 388.

With 1970 P.F. and 2008 P.S.E. certificates (Image)

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FINE-VERY FINE LIGHTLY-HINGED PLATE NUMBER BLOCK OF SIX OF THE 10-CENT PERF 10 PANAMA-PACIFIC ISSUE.

A desirable lightly-hinged bottom plate block (Image)

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FINE PAIR OF THE 1915 2-CENT TYPE I VERTICAL COIL WITH THE TOP STAMP MINT NEVER-HINGED.

The 2c Type I rotary plate was used very briefly to make vertical coils issued in late 1915. It was briefly used because the Type I plate was not very deeply engraved and the curvature of the rotary press yielded impressions lacking in some of the details. The Bureau noticed this immediately, and quickly replaced it with the Type III plate (according to Scott, the EDU for No. 449 is Oct. 29, 1915, and the EDU for Type III is Dec. 10, 1915).

With 1977 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail as singles (Image)

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FINE PAIR OF THE 1915 2-CENT TYPE I VERTICAL COIL WITH THE BOTTOM STAMP MINT NEVER-HINGED.

The 2c Type I rotary plate was used very briefly to make vertical coils issued in late 1915. It was briefly used because the Type I plate was not very deeply engraved and the curvature of the rotary press yielded impressions lacking in some of the details. The Bureau noticed this immediately, and quickly replaced it with the Type III plate (according to Scott, the EDU for No. 449 is Oct. 29, 1915, and the EDU for Type III is Dec. 10, 1915).

With 1977 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail as singles (Image)

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FINE APPEARANCE. ONE OF THE RAREST 20TH CENTURY STAMPS, WITH ONLY 40 EXAMPLES RECORDED (ALL BUT ONE CANCELLED).

Scott 482A, like its slightly more famous predecessor, Scott 314A, was issued imperforate by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and sold to the Schermack Company for use in its patented stamp-affixing machines. The Schermack "Sealer and Stamper" machine typically applied stamps one at a time, and, in most cases, the hyphen-hole perfs on one side would be cut off. Unlike Scott 314A, the release of imperforate sheets printed from the experimental Type Ia plates escaped the notice of contemporary collectors, and, therefore, has a very small survival rate.

Our census of Scott 482A (available at www.siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/482A/482A.pdf ) records one pair (ex Zoellner), three covers, one unused single and 34 used singles for a total of 40 stamps.

Census No. 482A-CAN-19. Ex "Bayou". With 1996 P.F. certificate (Image)

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EXTREMELY FINE MINT NEVER-HINGED SCOTT 499-500 COMBINATION PAIR.

Type Ia was created in 1919, when the Bureau of Engraving & Printing created an experimental 10-subject transfer roll, and used it to enter two new plates (Nos. 10208 and 10209). The two Type I positions from the bottom row of plate 10208 were the result of re-entries using the normal Type I transfer roll (the 10-subject roll would have been too large to accomplish single position re-entries).

This is one of the choicest examples of this combination we have encountered and it is unpriced in Scott as Mint N.H.. Scott Retail as hinged (Image)

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