U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History; The David Mace Collection of U.S. Stamps
April 24-25, 2018

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #2166
United States 1917-29 Issues
1917 2c deep rose, type Ia, bottom Plate No. single, hinged at lower left, stamp n.h., v.f.,
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Catalog #500
Catalog Value $550
Price Realized
$325.00

Lot #2167
United States 1917-29 Issues
1917 5c carmine, single error in strip of three (adjoining stamps are 2c), h.r., fine,
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Catalog #505
Catalog Value $325
Price Realized
$200.00

Lot #2168
United States 1917-29 Issues
1918 $2 orange and black, well centered, vignette slightly shifted to bottom, h.r., v.f.,
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Catalog #523
Catalog Value $500
Price Realized
$210.00

Lot #2169
United States 1917-29 Issues
1918 $2 carmine & black, $5 deep green & black, l.h., the latter with tiny internal wrinkle, fine-v.f.,
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Catalog #525,547
Catalog Value $270
Price Realized
$190.00

Lot #2170
United States 1917-29 Issues
1918 2c carmine, type VII, h.r., couple of tiny thin spots, still fresh and v.f., rare stamp, with 2007 PSE certificate (graded VG 50)
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Catalog #534B
Catalog Value $2,000
Price Realized
$550.00

Lot #2171
United States 1917-29 Issues
1919 2c carmine rose, type II, barest trace of a hinge, usual centering, with photocopy of a 1989 PSE certificate for a block of four from which this originated,
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Catalog #539
Catalog Value $2,700
Price Realized
$1,500.00

Lot #2172
United States 1917-29 Issues
1922 Rotary Perf. 11, 1c green, unused without gum, exceptionally well centered, tiny corner perforation crease at lower left, still v.f., with 2009 PFC. It is believed that fewer than 20 exist in any unused state (a small quantity of 1c Rotary Press stamps was perf. 11 at the end of 1922, using remainder sheets from the earlier experimental printings that were normally perforated in 10 gauge or 10/11 compound gauge. Its existence as a perf. 11 variety was discovered in 1936, and the stamp received its Scott's Catalogue listing in 1938. Most of the recorded copies of Scott's 544 are off-center or have been damaged, the result of poor production standards and mishandling)
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Catalog #544
Catalog Value $22,500
Price Realized
$6,750.00

Lot #2173
United States 1917-29 Issues
1922 8c olive green, bottom Plate No. Block of six, l.h., fine-v.f.,
Box *
Catalog #560
Catalog Value $575
Price Realized
$100.00

Lot #2174
United States 1917-29 Issues
1922 9c rose, left margin Plate No. Block of six, n.h., v.f.,
Box **
Catalog #561
Catalog Value $375
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #2175
United States 1917-29 Issues
1922 25c deep green and 30c olive brown, top and bottom Plate No. Blocks of six, h.r., some gum skips, fine-v.f.,
Box *
Catalog #568,569
Catalog Value $625
Price Realized
$230.00

Lot #2176
United States 1917-29 Issues
1922 50c lilac, top Plate No. Block of six, h.r., fine-v.f.,
Box *
Catalog #570
Catalog Value $550
Price Realized
$170.00

Lot #2177
United States 1917-29 Issues
1922 $2 blue, top margin Plate No. Block of six, l.h., well centered, fine-v.f.,
Box *
Catalog #572
Catalog Value $700
Price Realized
$270.00

Lot #2178
United States 1917-29 Issues
1922 $5 carmine & blue, top Plate No. Arrow Block of eight, l.h., well centered, diagonal creases, fine-v.f.,
Box *
Catalog #573
Catalog Value $2,500
Price Realized
$950.00

Lot #2179
United States 1917-29 Issues
1923 Rotary Press Printing, 1c and 2c perforated 11x10, top margin Plate No. and Star blocks of four, 1c n.h., 2c l.h., scissors separated perforations at left, scarce pair of Rotary Plate Blocks,
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Catalog #578,579
Catalog Value $2,300
Unsold
Lot #2180
United States 1917-29 Issues
1923 Rotary Press Printing, 1c-10c perforated 10, Plate No. Blocks of four, 1c, 2c, 3c and 6c l.h., balance n.h., fine-v.f.,
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Catalog #581-91
Catalog Value $3,570
Unsold
Lot #2181
United States 1917-29 Issues
1923 Rotary perf. 11, 1c green, unused part original gum, h.r., natural straight edge at top, thins, otherwise fine and attractive centering for this difficult issue with perfs clear (often found with perfs in), with 1959 PFC and 2010 PSE certificates, One of the rarest 20th Century United States stamps in unused condition (the 1c green, Scott's 594, is waste from a horizontal rotary printing used to make coils. At the beginning or end of a coil-stamp print run from the 170-subject rotary plates, some leading or trailing paper was produced that was too short for rolling into 500-stamp rolls. In 1919 the Bureau devised a plan to salvage this waste by perforating and cutting the sheets into panes. They were put through the 11-gauge flat-plate perforator in use at the time, giving the sheets full perforations on all sides. The existence of Scott's 594 was not reported until four months after the final sheets were delivered, and the 1c Rotary perf. 11 was soon recognized as one of the rarest United States stamps
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Catalog #594
Catalog Value $65,000
Price Realized
$15,000.00

Lot #2182
United States 1917-29 Issues
1923 Rotary perf. 11, 2c Harding, top sheet margin single, sharp impression, machine cancel, small faults mentioned on the accompanying 2002 PSE certificate, fine appearance (Warren G. Harding, the 29th President, died in San Francisco on August 2, 1923 and a Harding memorial stamp, printed in black was rushed into production). The first flat plate printing (Scott's 610) was issued on September 1, 1923, in his home town of Marion, Ohio, followed less than two weeks later by the normal perf. 10 rotary press printing (Scott's 612) on September 12. The 2c Harding Rotary perf. 11 stamp was discovered in 1938 by Leslie Lewis of the New York firm, Stanley Gibbons Inc. Gary Griffith presents his hypothesis in United States Stamps 1922-26 that rotary-printed sheets of 400 were first reduced to panes of 100 and then fed through the 11-gauge perforating machine normally used for flat plate sheets. This method explains the existence of a straight-edge on Scott's 613. Production quality and quantity was very low, due to
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Catalog #613
Catalog Value $40,000
Price Realized
$13,000.00

Lot #2183
United States 1917-29 Issues
1925 13c green, 17c black, left Plate No. Blocks of six, h.r., fine-v.f.,
Box *
Catalog #622-23
Catalog Value $460
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #2184
United States 1917-29 Issues
1928 2c carmine, Type II, l.h., v.f., with 2008 graded (VF-XF 85) PSE certificate,
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Catalog #634A
Catalog Value $300
Price Realized
$230.00

Lot #2185
United States 1917-29 Issues
1929 Kansas-Nebraska, complete sets of plate number blocks of four, 8c and 10c Kansas l.h., others n.h., fresh and mostly fine or better, scarce complete,
Box **
Catalog #658-679
Catalog Value $9,595
Unsold

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