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The Frelinghuysen Collection, Part Two: United States Stamps continued...

1c-12c 1869 Pictorial Issue (Scott 112-117) continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
299 ogbl Image3c Ultramarine (114). Block of four, original gum, h.r., bright color, few minor perf separations, Very Fine appearance (Image)

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 1,400.00

SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction
300 c Image3c Ultramarine, Vertical Two-Thirds Used as 2c (114c). Right two-thirds, tied across the cut by grid cancel on complete U.S. Internal Revenue March 1870 tax notice from Luray Va. to Cedar Point Va. also incl. "Supplemental Income Blank for Farmers" part-printed form, some splitting along folds

VERY FINE. THIS NEWLY-UNEARTHED RARITY IS ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED INTACT TAX NOTICES BEARING THE TWO-THIRDS BISECT OF THE 3-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE. ONE OF THE RAREST 3-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ITEMS.

The Luray 1869 bisects were used on tax notices prepared by Frank J. Bramhall, the Assistant Assessor of the U.S. Internal Revenue office at Luray, Virginia. The notices were to be brought before him, completed and signed by the addressee. This notice to Louisa Morris in Cedar Point was mailed on April 2, 1870. The Luray notices and small pieces thereof exist with two different rates: 1c for local addressees and 2c for those outside Luray. Only two notices have 2c 1869 bisects -- two halves of the same stamp (one ex Coulter and the other in the Miller collection) -- each paying the 1c local rate. The others have 3c 1869 stamps cut into one-third (1c), two-thirds (2c) or two one-thirds of different stamps joined along the perfs (2c), depending on the rate.

A Luray cover used on this date was described in a full paragraph on p. 114 of John N. Luff's 1902 edition of The Postage Stamps of the United States. This was the only 3c 1869 bisect known to Luff, who references this example by the date. However, with this recently-unearthed example, there are now two intact notices used, both on the same date. The other was offered in our recent sale of the Eubanks collection. In the century following the publication of Luff's book, two other Luray fronts (and pieces) have been discovered, as well as the 2c 1869 Luray bisects on notices and a locally-addressed 3c 1869 bisect cover from Summit N.J. (see Siegel Sale 771 of 1995, lot 951).

"W.H.C." Colson handstamp. (Image)

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 10,000.00

SOLD for $7,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
301 og Image6c Ultramarine (115). Original gum, small h.r., bright color, part arrow at top right, fresh and Fine (Image)

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 2,750.00

SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
302 og Image6c Ultramarine (115). Part original gum, small h.r., radiant color, small toned spot at top left, otherwise Fine (Image)

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 2,750.00

SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
303 ng Image6c Ultramarine (115). Unused (no gum), deep rich color and detailed impression, Very Fine (Image)

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 1,000.00

SOLD for $225.00
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304 ng Image6c Ultramarine (115). Unused (no gum), rich color, reperfed at left, Very Fine appearance (Image)

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 1,000.00

SOLD for $300.00
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305 og Image6c Ultramarine (115). Horizontal pair, original gum, bright color, faint line on gum at left, Fine, scarce pair (Image)

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 5,750.00

SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction
306 og Image6c Ultramarine (115). Horizontal strip of three, left stamp original gum, h.r., other two large part original gum, bright color, right stamp separated and reattached, otherwise Fine-Very Fine, scarce multiple, Scott Retail as pair and single (Image)

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 8,500.00

SOLD for $6,000.00
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307 ogbl Image6c Ultramarine (115). Block of four, original gum, bright color, few expertly rejoined perf separations, light creases, bottom right stamp toned spot, otherwise Fine, a scarce original-gum block of the 6c 1869 Pictorial Issue (Image)

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 16,500.00

SOLD for $5,500.00
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308 og Image10c Yellow (116). Large part disturbed original gum, h.r., vibrant color, Very Fine (Image)

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 2,000.00

SOLD for $325.00
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309 c Image10c Yellow (116). Vibrant color, tied by French Anchor in Diamond of Dots cancel on blue cover with Boston corner card and printed address to Paris, France, red "New York Jul. 9" circular datestamp, red "Etats-Unis Paq. Fr. H No. 1 9 Juil 70" octagonal datestamp, circular datestamp and circle of wedges cancel struck at far left where reduced, "8" decimes due marking, red crayon rating, minor age spotting around stamp at upper right, still Very Fine, prepaid 10c but not cancelled until on board the ship (Image)

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 E. 500-750

SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction

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