Census of St. Louis, Missouri, 20c Black on Greenish, Postmaster's Provisional (11X3)

11X3-CAN-01

Notes:

• Type I, Position 1
• Illustrated in Life magazine's "World's Rarest Stamps (May 3, 1954)

Provenance:

• C. E. Chapman Collection
• Warren H. Colson Collection
• Benjamin D. Phillips Collection, Bought from Colson, Jan. 1947
• 10/12/1989, Weill Brothers Collection, Christie's, Postmasters' Provisionals from the Weill Brothers Stock, Lot 644, Realized $18,700
• 10/3/1992, Siegel Auction Galleries, 1992 Rarities of the World, Sale 745, Lot 292, Realized $27,500
• 10/31/2003, Margie and Robert Faiman Collection, Bennett, Sale 267, Lot 56, Realized $72,500
• Thurston Twigg-Smith Collection, Private Treaty
• Barry K. Schwartz Collection

Certificates:

• PF 216474 (1989) t Is Genuine With Small Thinning And a lightened manuscript cancellation
• PF 407109 It Is Genuine With A Lightened Manuscript Cancellation And A Thin Spot At Bottom Right