2013 CHICAGOPEX Stamp Show November 2013 | Page 49

Session I: Saturday, November 23, 2013 Estimate 631 632 633 636X 637X Estimate 634X 638X 635X 639X 640 641 642X Session I: Saturday, November 23, 2013 Estimate Estimate USA EARLY 20TH CENTURY ISSUES 631 (295a) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 2¢ CARMINE & BLACK, CENTER INVERTED ............................................... PH $45,000 Exceptional stamp, the freshest gum and color we have ever seen on any Pan-American INVERT. Deep, rich color, full original gum, very lightly hinged, fine to very fine. Scott notes that ‘almost all unused copies of Scott #295a have partial or disturbed gum. Values are for examples with full original gum that is slightly disturbed.’ With an estimated 80 known, the 2¢ is the RAREST of the Pan-American inverts. (2012 PSE Cert #1250494). Cat $55,000. 632 633 / (294-99) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 1¢-10¢ COMPLETE SET, BLOCKS ...................................... PH 637 /( ) (294-99) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 1¢-10¢, COMPLETE SET ....................................................... PH / (294-99) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 1¢-10¢ COMPLETE SET ....................................................... PH 638 / USA-SINGLES-04.pmd (294-97) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 1¢-8¢, SHIFTED VIGNETTES ............................................................... PH 639 (295) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 2¢ CARMINE & BLACK, PLATE & IMPRINT STRIPS (x7) ............................... PH $350 Seven plate & imprint strips of 4, all DIFFERENT plate/number combinations. Fresh, MINT never hinged, fine or better. Cat $1277. 640 (295) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 1¢ CARMINE & BLACK, PLATE & IMPRINT STRIP ......................................... PH $180 Bottom plate and imprint strip of 4, red and black plate numbers and partial arrow at right. Fresh, MINT never hinged, very fine and attractive. Cat $182. 641 (295) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 2¢ CARMINE & BLACK, PLATE & IMPRINT STRIP ......................................... PH $150 Bottom plate and imprint strip of 4, red and black plate numbers and partial arrow at right. Fresh, MINT never hinged, very fine. Cat $182. 642 $250 (295//553) 1901-25 FOUR WELL CENTERED NEVER HINGED STAMPS ........................................ PH $200 Select group of 4 MINT NH stamps: Pan-American 2¢ plate single with large margins, very fine; Washington 1¢ vertical coil pair #448 with faint natural gum skip; Washington 1¢ offset gray green #536, well centered in jumbo margins, faint bend at bottom; Harding 1½¢ fresh & superb. Cat $132. Stamps & Postal History 47 $200 Six (6) stamps, all with shifted centers. Includes 1¢ used, 2¢ (x2, original gum, previously hinged) 4¢ (x2, original gum, previously hinged & used), and 8¢ used. Cute group, mostly fine to very fine. Complete set of 6. Original gum, hinge remnants, the 1¢ & 2¢ MINT never hinged. Fresh, fine to very fine. Cat $1032 for hinged. Chicagopex 2013 $150 Complete set of 6. Fresh colors, fine to very fine set. Some with disturbed original gum, 8¢ unused, no gum. Cat $397. $650 Complete set of six blocks of 4. Most with disturbed original gum or heavy hinging, although most blocks with one or two NH stamps. The 2¢ has one stamp with tiny thin, otherwise sound, fine set of blocks. Cat $4128. $200 Complete set of 6. The 4¢ short perf and tiny tear at bottom, otherwise fine to very fine set. Original gum, previously hinged. Cat $397. S (296Sa) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 4¢ CHOCOLATE & BLACK, INVERTED CENTER, SPECIMEN .............. PH $3000 The rare INVERTED CENTER with ‘Specimen’ handstamp (type E) in margin at right. Fresh colors, unused, no gum, two pulled perfs at the bottom, otherwise fine. Cat $11,500. 635 (294-99) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 1¢-10¢, COMPLETE SET ....................................................... PH (296a) 1901 PAN-AMERICAN 4¢ DEEP RED BROWN & BLACK, INVERTED CENTER ................................. PH $22,000 A fine appearing example of the RARE 4¢ Pan-American with INVERT. Large part original gum, slightly disturbed gum, tiny tear and faintly toned perfs at top, small diagonal crease ending in tiny tear at bottom. The 4¢ inverts were a Special Printing and not regularly issued. Because they were removed from mounting paper, most are thinned or with seriously disturbed gum. Scott notes that ‘values are for examples with full original gum that is slightly disturbed.’ (2012 PF Cert #506265). Cat $75,000. 634 636 Page 47 10/2/2013, 7:17 PM