The Mahendra Sagar Collection of Inverted Centers
October 5-6, 2011
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| Lot #537 URUGUAY 1895 25c red brown and black, center inverted, cancelled on piece in combination with additional 5c adhesive, neat 28 April 1896 Montevideo cds, v.f., with handstamped guarantee marks, 1995 APS cert., ex-Col. Green collection and illustrated in Lee (E.J.Lee formed a Grand-Prix collection of Uruguay in 1936). It is believed that only 40 examples were sold at a post office counter before the error was discovered, and the remaining copies were destroyed. Of the 40 that were used, only a small percentage were recovered and saved, making this an exceptionally rare error (YT 109a) O Catalog #120a Catalog Value €2,750 | Price Realized $1,500.00
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