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Auction: 140 - July Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 394

#R133, $500.00 Red orange, green and black, "Large Persian Rug," a most impressive example of this always popular high value, possessing gorgeous colors that are especially rich and radiant, light violet ms. cancel without any of the cut cancels that affect many copies, the only fault is a horizontal crease (nearly all examples have some kind of fault or repair), very fine appearance; this is the very stamp that the Scott United States Specialized Catalogue uses as their photo for the Large Persian Rug.

Sold for
$11,000