30c Red Orange, First Color (61). Part original gum, vibrant color on bright white paper, centered slightly to right but wide margins on three sides and perfs clear of design at right, faintest trace of a diagonal crease at lower right, not noted on certificate and mentioned only because this is characteristic of the 30c 1861 First Color

EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS STAMP IS ONE OF THE FIVE BEST-CENTERED 30-CENT 1861 FIRST COLOR STAMPS WITH ORIGINAL GUM. A BRILLIANT AND VERY RARE TRIAL PRINTING.

Our census of the 30c 1861 First Color, available at http://siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/61/61.pdf , contains a total of 33 examples, including one in the Miller collection at The New York Public Library. A characteristic common to most examples of the 30c 1861 First Color is faint creasing, which in some cases is very severe and in others barely visible. Six stamps with original gum are free of faults, although a few have a trivial nibbed perf or two. All of the sound stamps are centered to one side (as are most of the others).

Census 61-OG-08. Ex Zoellner. With 1958 P.F. certificate.

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