Price History for US Scott C3 in OG 98 Grade
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- It is important to look at the individual data points listed below. Price swings up may be due to varieties such as broken hat or other positives such as cancels. Price swings down may be due to factors such as faults on items that would have graded higher if they were sound, and may not be considered as desirable as a sound copy in this grade.
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24c Carmine Rose & Blue, 1918 Air Post (C3). Brilliant colors, mathematically perfect centering, long and full perforations all around, Extremely Fine Gem, a phenomenal stamp, with 2011 P.S.E. certificate (OGph, Gem 100; SMQ $675.00), this is the highest grade awarded in any category and it is the only hinged example to be awarded this grade (four Mint N.H.)
24c Carmine Rose & Blue, 1918 Air Post (C3). Mint N.H., brilliant colors, mathematically perfect centering, long and full perforations all around, Extremely Fine Gem, a phenomenal stamp, with 2011 P.S.E. certificate (OGph, Gem 100; unpriced in SMQ above the grade of 98, SMQ $210.00 as 98), this is the highest grade awarded to date in any category and it is the only hinged example to be awarded this grade (four Mint N.H.)
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24c Carmine Rose & Blue, 1918 Air Post (C3). Lightly hinged, Jumbo margins and essentially perfect centering, rich colors, Extremely Fine Gem, with 2007 P.S.E. certificate (OGph, Superb 98 Jumbo; SMQ $275.00 as 98, unpriced in any higher grade)
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24c Carmine Rose & Blue, 1918 Air Post, Grounded Plane Variety (C3 var). Single hinge mark, brilliant color, plane shifted significantly downwards with wheels well into "Cents", perfectly centered with wide marginsEXTREMELY FINE GEM. A SUPERB EXAMPLE OF THE RARE 1918 24-CENT FIRST AIR POST ISSUE GROUNDED PLANE VARIETY. THIS PHENOMENAL STAMP HAS BEEN AWARDED THE GRADE OF SUPERB 98 BY P.S.E.
The true Grounded Plane stamps, in which the wheels of the plane break thru the top of "Cents", come from portions of three sheets. The discovery sheet was owned and broken up by J. Klemann of Nassau Stamp Company. A second sheet was discovered in 1946 and sold in the Thomas A. Matthews sale (H.R. Harmer, Nov. 4, 1964), where it was purchased by Georges A. Medawar, publisher of Sanabria Airmail Catalogue. In Linn's Stamp News of April 21, 1986, specialist Joseph R. Kirker Jr. published his research revealing a third source of this variety.
With 2006 P.S.E. certificate (OGh, Superb 98; this variety is unpriced in SMQ).
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24c Carmine Rose & Blue, 1918 Air Post (C3). Barest trace of hinging, rich colors, vignette shifted slightly to the left, wide and balanced margins, Extremely Fine, a pretty stamp, with 2006 P.S.E. certificate (XF-Superb 95; SMQ $160.00)