Lot 2278
Hawaii, 1893, 10¢ red brown, red overprint error, original gum, h.r., rich color, fresh & F.-V.F.; dealer's backstamp, signed Bloch, with 1968 & 2013 P.F. certificates.Scott No. 61B $15,000.
A RARE SOUND EXAMPLE WITH ORIGINAL GUM AND FAR BETTER CENTERING THAN WHAT IS NORMALLY FOUND ON THIS RARE ERROR. ONLY ONE SHEET OF FIFTY WAS ISSUED.
Most of the examples from the only sheet of fifty produced, are centered into the perforations at top. It is believed that eight examples were destroyed from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and that less than forty examples are in existence.
Realized: $11,500