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Auction: 13USA - The Westchester Collection
Lot: 142

#419, 20c Ultramarine, a fantastic bottom sheet-margin mint single, boasting flawless centering amid enormous jumbo margins, especially intense color and a razor-sharp impression on brilliantly white paper, pristine o.g., n.h., superb.[cr][lf][cr][lf]The bottom sheet-margin mint single offered here is of truly mind-boggling proportions, being the beneficiary of the most massive jumbo margins we have ever seen on this value, plus it is incredibly well centered within them. A magnificent example of the 1914 Twenty Cent Perforated 12 Single Line Watermark issue. Without question this is one of the the finest examples in existence. It has been graded Superb 98 Jumbo by the PSE - the highest grade awarded to any Scott #419 and the sole example to have been awarded this prestigious grade.[cr][lf][cr][lf]Accompanied by a 2006 PSE certificate (Superb 98 Jumbo; SMQ $10,000.00 as 98, the highest grade they price); the sole Superb 98 Jumbo in the PSE Population Report, the highest grade awarded. Estimate US$ 11,000-13,000

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$12,000