Census of 24c Green & Violet, Center Inverted (Scott 120b)

Notes:

Formerly 120b-CAN-SC08
Block of four
Segmented cork cancel
CENSUS, LITERATURE AND EXHIBITION REFERENCES
Lester G. Brookman, United States Postage Stamps of the 19th Century, Vol. II, p. 182
Michael Laurence, “The 24¢ 1869 Invert Block,” Chronicle 85, Feb. 1975
Donna O’Keefe, Linn’s Philatelic Gems II, pp. 151-152
L. N. Williams, Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps, Vol. I, p. 318
Scott R. Trepel, “The Ishikawa 1869s,” Chronicle 162, May 1994
Stamp Exhibition, Eden Musée, New York City, March 1889 (Thorne)
London Philatelic Exhibition 1897, held at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Great Britain (Thorne)
ANPHILEX 1971 “Aristocrats of Philately” (Weill)
INTERPHIL 1976 “Aristocrats of Philately” (Weill)
ANPHILEX 1996 “Aristocrats of Philately” (Siegel Auction Galleries)
Collectors Club of New York “Aristocrats of United States Philately” exhibit, December 2000 (Gross)
World Stamp Show 2016 Court of Honor (Gross)

Provenance:

Discovered in Liverpool merchant’s correspondence files, circa 1888, by the so-called “Upside Down Man” (sold to a vest-pocket dealer)
Thomas Ridpath (bought from dealer for £5, circa 1888; sold or consigned to Henry Collin, Scott Stamp and Coin Co., mid-1888)
Esmond Bradley Martin, Sr. (bought from and sold privately to Souren)
Leslie White (bought privately from Souren; Collection, sold privately to the Weills, circa 1949)
1888, William Thorne (bought from Scott Stamp and Coin Co., for $200; collection sold privately to New England Stamp Co.)
11/23-25/1938, William H. Crocker (bought privately from New England Stamp Co.), Harmer, Rooke & Co.to Y. Souren, Lot 285
1968, Benjamin D. Phillips (bought privately from Weills, October 1949, for $24,000; collection sold privately to Weills)
9/28-29/1993, Ryohei Ishikawa (bought privately from Weills, circa 1977), Christie’s Robson Lowe sale to Siegel Auction Galleries, Lot 746
5/2/2003, Steven Walske (bought privately from Siegel), Bennett sale (later sold privately to Hagendorf/Columbian; resold privately to William H. Gross), Lot 1341
10/3/2018, William H. Gross Collection, Siegel Auction Galleries, United States Stamp Treasures: The William H. Gross Collection, Sale 1188, Lot 89, Realized $625,000

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