Census of 30c Ultramarine & Carmine, Center Inverted (Scott 121b)

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Provenance:

c. 1900-16 Sold to Arthur Hind (possibly the Sir William B. Avery copy discovered by Charles J. Phillips; the Avery Collection, was sold privately in 1909)
1933 Nov. 20 Hind sale, Phillips-Kennett, $2,500 to Scott Stamp & Co. (either as agent for or later sold to Philip H. Ward Jr.), Lot 399
8/23/1963, 1940’s-1963 Retained by Ward for his personal Collection, of Inverts until his death on
1963 Ward stock and personal Collection, acquired by Weills for $1.1 million
1964 Sold to Benjamin D. Phillips for $9,400 by Weills (Phillips bought a large number of items from the Ward collection)
1968 Oct. Phillips Collection, sold privately to Weills for $4.07 million
3/24/1970, Siegel Auction Galleries, 1970 Rarities of the World, Sale 371, Lot 86, Realized $32,000, 1970 Mar. 24 , $32,000, reported sold to a Texas collector
1979 Reported sold to Weills by Texas collector
4/29/1981, Siegel Auction Galleries, 1981 Rarities of the World, Sale 579, Lot 173, Realized $125,000, 1981 Apr. 29
1987 Sold to Ryohei Ishikawa in private transaction brokered by Harvey R. Warm (source unknown)
1993 Sep. 29 Ishikawa sale, Christie’s NY, $105,000 hammer to William H. Gross (Charles and Tracy Shreve as agents), Lot 742
6/14/2024, William H. Gross Collection, Siegel Auction Galleries, The William H. Gross Collection of Complete United States Stamps, Sale 1323, Lot 42, Realized $312,700

Certificates:

PF 33196 (1970) Genuine with tiny wrinkling at top left corner
PF 276522 (1993) Genuine with light wrinkling at bottom left center
PF 602306 (2024) Unused, no gum, flags inverted, Genuine with a faint natural paper wrinkle at botom center