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Auction: 13USA - The Westchester Collection
Lot: 68

#239, 30c Columbian, an amazing quality mint example, being the essence of perfection, with mathematically precise centering amid truly gigantic jumbo margins, fabulous overall brilliance and freshness, with eye-arresting color and impression on immaculate paper, even its perforations are unusually uniform and intact, unblemished o.g. without a single gum bend or skip, n.h., in a word - superb.[cr][lf][cr][lf]A breathtakingly beautiful stamp, with every physical characteristic being as perfect as one could ever imagine. Easily the finest never hinged Thirty Cent Columbian we have ever had the pleasure to offer in our auctions - as well as being one of the finest, if not the finest, examples in existence.[cr][lf][cr][lf]Accompanied by a 1999 PF certificate and a 2007 PSE certificate (Superb 98 Jumbo; SMQ $24,500.00as 98, the highest grade they price); the sole example to have been graded Superb 98 Jumbo, with only one stamp grading slightly higher (100), however that stamp´s margins are not near as wide as this incomparable copy; ex-""Connoisseur´s"" Collectio Estimate US$ 25,000-30,000

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