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File:Stamp US 12c bisect on Sonora cover (Siegal 2004).jpg

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English: 12c Black United States (provisional or "unofficial") postage stamp en:bisect of No. 17, with a January 12, 1852 Sonora, California cancellation

This image was uploaded from: http://www.siegelauctions.com/dynamic/lots.php?year=2004&lot_name=1851-56%20Issue&start_lot=243&stop_lot=266&sale_name=2004%20Rarities%20of%20the%20World&sale_no=878&sale_date=Saturday,%20June%2012,%202004; and was part of the

Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. June 12, 2004

It was described exactly as ...

12c Black, Diagonal Half Used as 6c (17a). Upper right diagonal half, ample margins, ideally tied across the cut by blue framed "PAID" straightline with matching "SONORA, CALIFORNIA/JAN 12, 1852" two-line datestamp on blue folded letter to Surry Me., from the Jarvis correspondence, ms. "Paid 6cts", slight bleaching along file fold ...
EXTREMELY FINE. AN OUTSTANDING 12-CENT 1851 BISECT COVER WITH THE RARE SONORA 1852 YEAR-DATED STRAIGHTLINE POSTMARK. ONLY FIVE RECORDED COVERS -- ALL FROM THE JARVIS CORRESPONDENCE -- WITH THE 12-CENT 1851 BISECT AND SONORA STRAIGHTLINE.
Ex Brown, Grunin and Zoellner
Date Stamp was issued in 1851
Source higher resolution at http://www.siegelauctions.com/2004/878/266.jpg
Author United States Post Office Department

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  • 2005-06-25 05:45 WB2 506×340×8 (32371 bytes) United States (unofficial) [[bisect]] of No. 17, with a January 12, 1852 Sonora, California cancellation {{PD-stamp}} This image was uploaded from: http://www.siegelauctions.com/dynamic/lots.php?year=2004&lot_name=1851-56%20Issue&start_lot=243&stop_lot=266&sale_name=2004%20Rarities%20of%20the%20World&sale_no=878&sale_date=Saturday,%20June%2012,%202004 and was part of the [http://siegela

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