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Auction: 13USA - The Westchester Collection
Lot: 166

#512a, 12c Brown carmine, a matchless quality mint single, boasting several extraordinary physical attributes, including being absolutely perfectly centered within impressive jumbo margins, its color is especially brilliant and in the distinctive Brown carmine shade, plus its impression could not be more deeply incised on wonderfully bright paper, pristine o.g., n.h., superb.[cr][lf][cr][lf]The finest example of either shade of the Twelve Cent value (Scott #512 or #512a) in the PSE Population Report - grading a stunning Gem 100 Jumbo - the ultimate of all stamp grades. A stamp whose equal we cannot imagine exists.[cr][lf][cr][lf]Accompanied by a 2008 PSE certificate (Gem 100 Jumbo; unpriced in SMQ as 100, let alone as 100 Jumbo, SMQ $870.00 as a ""mere"" 98); the highest graded example in the PSE Population Report and the sole example to be so graded.[cr] Estimate US$ 3,500-4,000

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