U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
March 24-25, 2010

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1187
MEXICO
1856-61 Hidalgo, first and second issues, balance of the 10-frame exhibit, largely intact, beautifully written up on 114 pages and containing 920 stamps and 45 covers (FLs), arranged first by production and issue types with used and unused examples incl. 1867 Gothic "Mexico" overprints, colors, plate flaws and printing varieties (those include re-entries, traces of inverted tablets, plate cracks, shifts and doubling of parts of design, usually in the labels or ornaments at top or bottom, "double lips", incomplete designs, pre-printing paper folds, Benecke private perforation etc.). Second part of the collection is devoted to district overprints and postal rates. Included are districts not overprinted (Cautitlan and Tepeji del Rio), missing from oversight, various type faces used for overprinting (such as Mexico, five different types, Guadalajara, six different types, three each of Puebla, Queretario), stamps used outside of district (México: Cuernavaca, Veracruz:Orizava, Veracruz:Teapa, Tabasco, etc), posta
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Catalog #1-12
Price Realized
$62,500.00

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