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Auction: 13USA - The Westchester Collection
Lot: 63

#234, 5c Columbian, perfectly centered within absolutely enormous margins whose size are unlike any other we have seen on this value, deep luxuriant color and a razor-sharp impression on brilliantly fresh paper, even its perforations are uniformly intact all around, pristine o.g., n.h., superb.[cr][lf][cr][lf]A stunning quality example that is, without question, not only one of the finest never hinged Five Cent Columbians in existence, but it is also one of the largest margined. A stamp essential to the collector patiently assembling a Columbian mint set consisting only of the highest graded examples.[cr][lf][cr][lf]Accompanied by a 2002 PF certificate and a 2006 PSE certificate (Superb 98J; SMQ $9,000.00 as 98, the highest grade they price); one of only four stamps to have been awarded the lofty Superb 98 Jumbo grade, the highest awarded to this value. Estimate US$ 9,000-10,500

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$14,000