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Auction: 159 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1432

#13, 1878 4R Violet, two largely complete sheets, the most complete has 99 stamps lacking only the bottom left stamp, there is no selvage at top but includes the four blank cliches (piece out of the top left one) and no selvages at sides, the bottom has most of the imprint across the bottom selvage including the "Arthur Maurry" imprint at right, also the bottom is imperforate between the stamps and the selvage, Goodman thought this unusual and mentioned that there was a block known this way, the other sheet has 93 of the 100 stamps, lacking the right stamp of the 5th row, the first stamp of the 12th row and the first two stamps and the last three stamps of the bottom row, the remaining three stamps of the bottom row are imperforate between the stamps and selvage, the top selvage is present but not the selvages at sides, both have full o.g., a total of ten stamps and two blank labels are hinged, all the rest ar never hinged, due to the size and fragility of the sheets there is a fair amount of separation, centering is fine-very fine; excellent for plating with all the positions that Goodman mentions present in both sheets.

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