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Sale 114
Lot 838
 
U.S.; General Issues, 1898, Trans-Mississippi, $2 Orange Brown, Top Imprint Plate Block of 4, #293, #613 with large top, very l.h. at top and "right two stamps with perfs reinforced at the right….bottom left stamp never hinged", very well centered for the $2 and lovely color. One of the better centered pl. blocks, Very Fine and very rare. No record of this plate block being offered in any auction in many decades.
Scott $100,000. There are perhaps three imprint and plate number blocks of six in existence. The imprint and plate number block of four format is also extremely rare, particularly from the top position.
Estimate $50,000-60,000
The design of the $2 Trans-Mississippi depicts the Eads bridge, which spans the Mississippi River at St. Louis. The original engraving was used on the admission ticket to the Republican Convention of 1896, which nominated McKinley as candidate for president. The stamp, issued during the McKinley Administration, illustrates the natural boundary between East and West and so was appropriate for the Trans-Mississippi Issue. All of the $2 Trans-Mississippi stamps were printed in a single day's run on June 3, 1898.
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