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Auction: 6010 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World - Washington Philatelic Exhibition Auction
Lot: 241

x United States of America 1918 Air, 24c. blue and carmine, variety centre inverted, position 100 with sheet margin at foot and straight-edge at right, rich colours, unused with virtually full original gum and the merest trace of hinge; slight diagonal crease through the margin and just affecting the stamp, nevertheless a very fine example of this world famous error. P.F. Certificate (1999). Sc. C3a Estimate US$ 300,000-350,000provenance: Rafael Oriol, Havana F.W. Kessler auction, April 1961 Robert A. Siegel auction, November 1982 Irwin Weinberg private treaty list, March 1983

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