Census of Millbury Mass. 5c Black on Bluish Postmaster's Provisional (Scott 7X1)

7X1-PCE-09

7X1-PCE-09
Fault

Notes:
  • Tied by red mark on piece, red “Milbury Ms. Mar. 8” (1847) cds
Provenance:
  • 1913 Possibly exhibited in the C. E. Chapman Collection, where noted “on large piece of cover”
  • 1915? To J. K. Storrow (year based on sale of Chapman Collection, thru Nassau Stamp Co.)
  • 192? To Col. Edward H. R. Green (purchased entire Storrow U.S. Collection, for $77,500)
  • 1943 May 26 Green sale, Harmer Rooke, Lot 8, Realized $1,025
  • 5/25/1986, Siegel Auction Galleries, The Isleham Collection of United States Stamps, Sale 662, Lot 1022, Realized $8,500, 1986 May 25 Isleham sale
  • 2/27/1964, Siegel Auction Galleries, 1964 Rarities of the World, Sale 267, Lot 7, Realized $6,000, 1964 Feb. 27, , $6,000, to Bernard D. Peyton (Isleham)
  • 5/19/2001, Siegel Auction Galleries, 2001 Rarities of the World, Sale 837, Lot 11, Unsold, 2001 May 19
Certificates:
  • PF 384694 Light horizontal crease, and the bluish paper lightened with the passage of time