 Uncut Experimental Sheet of Second Issue 10¢ Essays. Face type of Fr.1244. Ten impressions configured five vertically and two horizontally. The back is completely blank and the notes are missing the face bronze ovals. Milton 2E10F.1. This sheet has full wide selvage and has surcharges in bronze in seven lines in the following heavy ornamental type:
'FIRST
WASHINGTON, D. C.
FIRST
WASHINGTON, D. C.
SECOND
BALTIMORE, MD.
SECOND'
This experimental sheet was lot 943 from the 1904 S.H. Chapman Sale of the Charles Wilcox Collection. It brought a princely sum of $25.00 at that time. A very unusual item that is quite handsome and probably unique. Choice About Uncirculated with a black ink smear on the upper left back. There is a reassembled block of five 50¢ examples on this series in the O'Mara Sale which is a very difficult accomplishment. To get a complete, uncut sheet with the entire seven lines intact is an exciting event. Do not miss this wonderful opportunity to acquire this outstanding item as it may be many years before it comes up for sale again.
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