Lot
2449 
1914, 2¢ carmine, S.L. watermark, horizontal flat plate coil, unusual single from the beginning of the coil roll showing a fragment of the manila leader tape at left, tied by neat Dayton, Ohio machine cancel, May 19, 1914, the earliest documented usage, on a two-color illustrated (front & back) advertising cover of The Air-Friction Carburetor Co., Very Fine. An important coil variety for the Washington-Franklin collector, ex-"Alpha"; with 2004 A.P.S. certificate. Scott No. 444 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $475