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Auction: 16USA - The Frederick R Mayer Collection of Costa Rica
Lot: 42

#3, 1863 4r Green, an impressive complete mint sheet of 100, with full sheet selvages all around and showing several ""American Bank Note Co. New-York"" imprints, including three which appear in the top row not in the sheet selvage but incorporated into the top margins of the stamps, with position 8 displaying the pronounced major double transfer in the lettering within the ""Correos De Costa Rica"" tablet, unused, without gum (probably removed to preserve the condition of the sheet), some small flaws and some separated perforations in a couple of rows, fine; the only recorded sheet of this Estimate US$ 525-625

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$5,250