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Auction: 13USA - The Westchester Collection
Lot: 104

#307, 10c Pale red brown, magnificently centered, with huge perfectly balanced margins all around, eye-arresting color that is intensely rich and an impression that is razor sharp on brilliantly fresh paper, unblemished o.g. without a single gum bend or skip, n.h., superb.[cr][lf][cr][lf]A matchless quality stamp that is the epitome of perfection. Having been awarded the ultimate grade of Superb 98 Jumbo by the PSE. A stamp without equal and essential to the collector assembling the finest graded set of the 1902-08 Third Bureau issues.[cr][lf][cr][lf]Accompanied by a 1993 PF certificate and a 2007 PSE certificate (Superb 98 Jumbo; SMQ $6,500.00 as 98, the highest grade they price); the highest grade awarded to any example of Scott #307 by the PSE - the sole example to have been assigned this lofty grade (the next closest graded example is a ""mere"" 95 Estimate US$ 7,000-8,000

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$10,000