United States & Worldwide Stamps

1929 definitives (watermarked) 6k blue special printing, perforated 12:12 1/4, sheetlet of 20 (as opposed to the 1925 issue which was printed in gutter sheets of 100, which can be separated into panes of 25), with margins on all four sides, three stamps l.h. at top, adhesion and small thin affecting the stamp at upper right (also small part of selvage missing), folded vertically between stamps (tiny perforated. Separations at bottom margin), natural wrinkles and diagonal creases affecting three stamps at bottom, also abrasions in left margin away from the stamps. A rarity, one of only a handful recorded, with Mandrovski certificate (Zagorsky 81B, $55,000; Zverev $20,000) -
Estimate price: $9500-10000