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Auction: 159 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1430

#1a, 1b, 1871 1c Ocher, Imperforate, printed on both sides, an amazing large portion of a double sheet, on one side printed in the deep ocher shade is a gutter block of 180 being the bottom nine rows of each of the two panes with blue "Controle/T.P." handstamp control marking at bottom left, on the reverse of the left block of 90 is printed a block of 90 in the upright position in the ocher shade making a total of 90 stamps printed on both sides and the other block of 90 printed on only one side (two stamps with staple holes), vertical fold in the gutter between panes as always (slight separation of about two rows at top), very fine; this multiple is extraordinary in several ways, the double pane of 180 is larger than full sheet of 150 and therefore the second largest multiple recorded, being only smaller than the full double sheet of 300; this is also believed to be the largest recorded multiple printed on both side; all of this makes for a very valuable multiple with a total catalog value of $6,975.00 for just the printed-on-reverse singles and imperforate pairs, let alone the premium for this impressive multiple.

Estimate
$2,600