Auction 27
Lot 172 o 1870, 24¢ purple, N.B.N.C. printing (Scott 153), a wonderfully fresh and bright stamp with full margins, bold socked-on-the-nose strike of a rarely seen New York Foreign Mail cancel, Very Fine to Extremely Fine, Ex - Kirke, Weiss and Luttenton. Scott $210 ++. Weiss GE-C-U1. Estimate $350 - 500 Weiss classifies this as very rare and notes that "…no example of this rare cancel has ever been seen or reported on cover or even on a piece of cover" . |
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