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U.S.; General Issues, 1915, 2¢ Red, Type I, Rotary Coil, Line Pair, #449, lightly canc'd., very balanced wide margins at left and right and intact perfs with portions of adjoining stamps at top and bottom, very fresh color and paper, Grade 75 immaculate and Very Fine. Ex Ward, a grade 85 pair (the only pair graded until now) realized $34,500 in the 2012 "Grace" auction which states "only confirmed sound and centered copy", the copy in this auction is not as well centered but has a much lighter cancellation then the somewhat heavily canceled "Grace" pair. PF (2015), PF (1988) certs.
Scott $25,000. Census of #449 used joint line pairs (This is #449-CAN-LP-08), records a total of ten plus one in a strip of four. Of these at least six have faults leaving only 5 pairs (only 3 incl. this one confirmed as sound recently by certifying committees) .
Estimate $16,000-20,000
The 2¢ Type I rotary plate was used very briefly to make vertical coils issued in late 1915. It was briefly used because the Type I plate was not very deeply engraved and the curvature of the rotary press yielded impressions lacking in some of the details. The Bureau noticed this immediately, and quickly replaced it with Type III plate (according to Scott, the EDU for No. 449 is Oct. 29, 1915, and the EDU for Type III is Dec. 10, 1915).
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