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Auction: 159 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1427

#1, 1871 1c Ocher, mint sheet of 150 (10x15),a remarkably well preserved pane with full selvage all around showing the oval blue "Controle/T.P." handstamp at top right this being the right pane of the double pane sheet of 300 as printed, amazingly fresh with strong rich color, wonderfully intact and unfolded, full o.g., hinged in the selvage only with all stamps n.h. except the bottom left vertical pair which has hinge reinforced vertical perfs, well centered for this very tightly spaced issue that has barely more space than the size of the perforation holes, very fine and a marvelous choice sheet; a full sheet is the largest recorded multiple of the perforated One Centavo Ocher; this is a new discovery and believed to be the better of two sheets known, the other being without selvage.

Sold for
$260