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Mercado & Sully, 2¢ black, old paper, margins large to shaving frameline at lower right, flaws including thins, creasing and tear, Fine appearance, an extremely rare example of the Mercado & Sully 2¢ Black on Old Paper, with 15 examples recorded in the Aldrich census of (which 10 are reported to be faulty), ex-Cunliffe.Scott No. RS177a $8,000.
Realized: $3,000