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Auction: 13USA - The Westchester Collection
Lot: 85

#281, 5c Dark blue, magnificently centered, with extravagantly large and perfectly balanced margins all around, strikingly intense color and an incredibly detailed impression on the brightest paper possible for a stamp of this vintage, immaculate o.g., n.h., simply superb.[cr][lf][cr][lf]A fabulous stamp in the finest attainable quality. In fact, this is the highest graded Scott #281 in the PSE Population Report, and is the sole example to have been awarded this coveted grade.[cr][lf][cr][lf]Accompanied by a 1997 PF certificate and a 2007 PSE certificate (Superb 98 Jumbo; SMQ $3,950.00 as 98, the highest grade they price); the highest grade assigned to any Five Cent Dark Blue Watermarked Bureau issue. Estimate US$ 4,000-4,750

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$5,000