Lot 449
Ring's Vegetable Ambrosia, 4¢ Black, Part Perf, Silk Paper, vertical strip of 3, large part o.g. (with some disturbance), deep rich color, beautifully centered with wide top and bottom margins, small edge thin in bottom stamp, otherwise Extremely Fine, the largest known multiple of the Ring's Vegetable Ambrosia 4¢ Black Part Perforated on Silk Paper, a magnificent showpiece with only two multiples known, the other being a vertical pair, with only 15 examples recorded in the Aldrich census (of which 7 are reported to be faulty), Ex-Joyce.Scott No. RS203bp $11,250 for singles.
Realized: $4,750