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FINE AND SPECTACULAR PAIR OF BLOCKS OF THE 12-CENT 1851 ISSUE, USED ON A LARGE PART OF A COVER AND CANCELLED IN VIVID RED.
From the Rathbone correspondence, which surfaced through Robson Lowe in London in 1975. Ex Ishikawa and from our 1976 Rarities sale. Scott value $11,240.00 for two blocks with red cancel


EXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL AND RARE USED BLOCK OF EIGHT OF THE 12-CENT 1851 ISSUE. ONE OF THE LARGEST AND FINEST USED MULTIPLES EXTANT.
Ex Caspary, Dick, B. D. Phillips and Bechtel. From our 1993 Rarities sale. Scott value $11,000.00 as two blocks of four


VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS THE SECOND LARGEST RECORDED USED MULTIPLE OF THE 12-CENT 1851 ISSUE.
This block of 16 is the second largest used multiple of the 12c 1851 Issue. The Mortimer Neinken collection contained a 9-by-2 block of 18 (Sale 384, lot 200), which was removed from a large cover before 1951 and is ex Col. Tracy and Jessup. We presume this is the item that is listed in U.S. Stamp Facts as a block of 18 on cover. The largest surviving on-cover block is a block of six in the Charles A. Hirzel collection at the Swiss Museum of Communications in Berne, Switzerland. There is also a strip of six on cover in the James A. Allen collection.
Ex Leon Adutt (Morgenthau sale, June 26-27, 1923--it realized $1,025 in this sale nearly 100 years ago) and Ishikawa. Scott value as four used blocks is $22,000.00








EXTREMELY FINE GEM. THIS IS THE FINEST KNOWN USED BLOCK OF THE 12-CENT 1851 ISSUE. A MAGNIFICENT CLASSIC IMPERFORATE MULTIPLE AND EXTREMELY RARE IN SOUND CONDITION.
Despite the existence of a fair number of used blocks of the 12c 1851 Issue, or perhaps because of it, collectors fail to appreciate the extreme rarity of used blocks in sound condition with four full margins. A review using Power Search will reveal the blocks sold through our auctions over many years, almost all of which are cut in or have faults, and none of which can be compared to the block offered in this sale. We feel confident in describing this block as the finest used multiple extant.
Ex Emerson and Lehman (as a block of six)


VERY FINE BLOCK. APART FROM A FEW LARGE HEAVILY-CANCELLED MULTIPLES, THE 12-CENT 1851 ISSUE IS EXTREMELY RARE IN SOUND ATTRACTIVE BLOCKS.
This is the only block known to us that is cancelled in red. The Philadelphia exchange office datestamp is scarce.
Ex Chase, Emerson and Zoellner. Scott Retail $5,620.00