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Auction: 159 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1429

#1a, 1871 1c Ocher, Imperforate, full double sheet of 300 as printed, a marvelous intact sheet printed in the deep ocher shade possessing full selvages all around with blue "Controle/T.P." oval control marking at top right on the right pane and at bottom left on the left pane, without gum as most imperforate multiples are, fresh with deep strong color, folded vertically in the gutter between the panes as are all gutter multiples and one horizontal fold neatly between rows 7 and 8 across the sheet, very fine and handsome; it had been believed that the last full press sheet of 300 had been broken up to produce gutter multiples, however the discovery of this intact double pane sheet of 300 now becomes the largest known (as well as possible) multiple of the one centavo value perforated or imperforate, and believed to be the only example yet remaining intact; a must for a World-class collection of Guatemala's First Issue.

Estimate
$920