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Sale 85: The Westpex Sale

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Postal Cards

Lot 1840    

Postal Card, 1902, 1¢ black on buff, the "full-face McKinley", mint card, some faint toning and crease, F.-V.F. and rae, ex-Brazer, Joyce. USPCC No. S21.
Scott No. UX17    $16,000.

ONE OF ONLY ONLY 18 KNOWN MINT EXAMPLES OF THE 1¢ BLACK FULL-FACE MCKINLEY POSTAL CARD.

The entire stock of 500 cards was inadvertently sent from Washington to Booth, Dailey & Ivins in New York where they were shortly thereafter pre-printed with their address and garbage dumping information on the back to be filled out by the tug captain. As a result of the printing there remained no mint cards for collectors. This "Unmarked Specimen" long ago became accepted as a full mint card in order to allow collectors to have a complete unused collection. Albert Daggett, the contractor for the printing of the Full Face card, was never able to satisfy the Post Office in Washington due to sub-standard quality of his productions. All submitted samples were rejected and as a result the entire stock of 1,625,000 cards was ordered destroyed by the PMG on April 29, 1902.

Realized: $3,250

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