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Auction: 13USA - The Westchester Collection
Lot: 121

#358, 2c Carmine on bluish paper, an eye-arresting jumbo-margined mint example, possessing truly immense margins and being perfectly centered within them, striking ""fiery"" color and a well incised impression on deeply blued paper, pristine o.g., n.h., superb.[cr][lf][cr][lf]Bluish Paper stamps are well known to be quite difficult to find in premium condition. Their experimental nature, in a failed effort to stop paper shrinkage, resulted in many poorly perforated sheets. Therefore, to locate a truly well centered example is quite a find. To then discover one that is not only well centered but with extra-large margins is a very rare occurrence. The stunning example offered here of the Two Cent Bluish Paper is, without fear of being contradicted, one of the largest margined Bluish Papers in existence, if not the largest. Additionally, it is amazingly well centered within these vast borders. A magnificent quality stamp in every regard.[cr][lf][cr][lf]Accompanied by 1984, 1998 and 2006 PF certificates (the latter graded Superb 98 Jumbo), as well as a 2008 PSE certificate (Superb 98 Jumbo; SMQ $6,600.00 as 98, the highest grade they price); the sole example in the PSE Population Report to grade 98J, with one grading just slightly higher (100) but its margins are considerably smaller than the remarkable example offered here; ex-Klimet Estimate US$ 7,500-9,000

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