Auction # 56 - THE WESTPEX SALE

4¢ Deep Blue Green, 1883 Special Printing. Without gum as issued, deep intense color indicative of this issue, exceptional centering and beautifully balanced margins, Extremely Fine, a wonderful example of this extremely rare Special Printing issue, signed S. Anderson, with 1946, 1992 and 2013 P.F. certificates, the later Graded (VF-XF 85, SSV $87,500).
Scott No. 211D; $65,000.

WITHOUT QUESTION ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES OF THE 1883 4¢ AMERICAN BANK NOTE CO. SPECIAL PRINTING IN EXISTENCE.

This Special Printing is from a trial printing by a new steam-powered American Bank Note Co. press. Approximately 1,000 of these stamps (in sheets of 200 with an imperforate gutter between panes of 100) were delivered as samples to the Third Assistant Postmaster General and subsequently made their way to the public market.

Official Postal records show that twenty six examples of this Special Printing where issued. The Philatelic Foundation has certified all but one of these. Out of the mere twenty five that has been certified, five examples are recorded with small flaws.
Catalog value: Scott $65,000