DESCRIPTION

1¢ Blue, Types II and IV (7, 9), the complete unused (no gum) pane of 100 from the right of Plate 1 Late, with “Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear & Co. BANK NOTE ENGRAVERS. Phila. New York, Boston & Cincinnati” imprint and “No. 1” plate number at right and interpane margin and centerline at left, Position 4R is Type II--the only subject on the plate that was not recut--and the other 99 positions are Type IV with recut lines at top and/or bottom, the top row includes all of the former Type I (7R1E) and Ib positions (3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9R1E) that were transformed into Type IV when the plate was reworked, Position 89R is another interesting plate variety with a wide break in the bottom curved line

PROVENANCE

* Samuel L. Richey (sold privately)

* Mortimer L. Neinken (sold privately to Ishikawa)

* Ryohei Ishikawa, Sotheby Parke Bernet sale, 6/24/1980, Sale 46, lot 103

* Roland H. Cipolla II, Barry Reiger sale, 4/5/1983, lot 20

CENSUS, LITERATURE AND EXHIBITION REFERENCES

* Stanley B. Ashbrook, The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851-1857, 1938 edition, Vol. 1, p. 141 and fig. 16-Q, p. 143

* Mortimer L. Neinken, The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851 to 1861, fig. 11-P, p. 128

CONDITION NOTES

* The following faults are insignificant in this unique artifact: two creases between rows; some stamps are thinned where the pane was apparently stuck down; patched hole in Position 81R, small piece missing from sheet margin at upper left; stains in three stamps

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