The Mahendra Sagar Collection of Inverted Centers
October 5-6, 2011
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #232 GUATEMALA 1881 Quetzal, 2c brown and green, center inverted, h.r., v.f. (YT 23a) * Catalog #22a Catalog Value €400 | Price Realized $600.00 |
 | Lot #233 GUATEMALA 1881 Quetzal, 2c brown and green, center inverted, used on 3c postal stationery card (H & G 4) to Frankfurt, Germany, tied by a fancy violet star postmark, endorsed Via Livingston and New Orleans, with 1883 Quetzal Tenango cds and transit at left, v.f. and rare usage, with 2009 PFC, ex-Cunliffe  Catalog #22a | Price Realized $4,750.00 |
 | Lot #234 GUATEMALA 1881 Quetzal, 5c red and green, center inverted, used, v.f., according to Goodman, only 25 exist (mostly used), with 1998 APS cert. (YT 24a) O Catalog #23a Catalog Value €1,600 | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #235 GUATEMALA 1881 Quetzal, 20c yellow and green, center inverted, slightly disturbed original gum, v.f. (YT 26a) * Catalog #25a Catalog Value €450 | Price Realized $600.00 |
 | Lot #236 GUATEMALA 1902 Quetzal, 1c center inverted, right margin single, unissued colors of orange and blue, with Waterlow and Sons Specimen overprint in black and single security punch (overprint inverted), without gum as issued, v.f., only a few known, with 2009 APS certificate. Also included in the lot is a nice holding of Specimens of this issue, with 1c-2p perforated set of 13, 12 1/2c and 1p imperf. singles, 75c top right corner margin perforated example without overprint (only one sheet of nine exists), 12 1/2c sheet margin horizontal strip of three, imperf. vertically between pos. 1 and 2, also 5c sheet margin vertical strip of three imperf. horizontally between; and finally 2c, 5c and 20c sheetlets of nine, without gum as issued  SCatalog #114/123S | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
 | Lot #237 GUATEMALA 1911 General Post Office, 25c black and blue, center inverted, lightly cancelled, irregular perfs at bottom, otherwise fine, less than 100 recorded, with clear 1998 APS cert. (YT 145a) O Catalog #141a Catalog Value €1,250 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #238 GUATEMALA 1911 General Post Office, 25c black and blue, center inverted, rejoined horizontal pair, lightly cancelled, pressed out crease, otherwise fine, with 1999 APS cert. (YT 145a) O Catalog #141a Catalog Value €2,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #239 GUATEMALA 1911 Post Office, 25c blue and black, center inverted, used with an upright example on cover addressed to Monsi€Gaston Soupey, Secretaire de la Legation de France in Guatemala, cancelled and tied to envelope with boxed violet Servicio Express Jun 1 1915 pmk with Salida 3 PM in manuscript and Recibida a (no manuscript time written) hand stamps on front; additionally franked on reverse with Guatemala 6c Temple of Minerva (Scott's No.117), fine, with 2007 Alex Rendon certificate. According to an article by Brian Moorhouse "Not only is this cover a unique example of the 25c inverted center on cover, it may also be the earliest recorded example of a franked Express Delivery cover." A great rarity from Guatemala Catalog #141,141a | Unsold |
 | Lot #240 GUATEMALA 1911 5p red and black, center inverted, right margin block of six, n.h., fine-v.f. (YT 146a; catalogue value for hinged singles) **Catalog #142a Catalog Value €300 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #241 GUATEMALA 1911 5p red and black, center inverted, top right corner margin block of six, used on piece, violet cancels, each with a vertical cut made by the Postmaster General when he found the error (known as the "slash" variety), fine-v.f., one of the largest known used multiples of this error, with 2002 PFC Catalog #142a | Unsold |
