Start of the sale:
Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 10:57 AM
Item n°1872915630
Sale ends:
Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
United States, Scott #C26, used(o), 1944 air mail, Air Transport Series, the stamp is the second value in the 'Transport Series' of 1941, the seven stamp series is controversial in the fact that it displays an aircraft which did not exist, stamp shows a twin-engine, bulge-body, three fin, vertical stabilizer empennage, transport aircraft that looked good, but existed from only the stamp artist's design, the series was available in 1941 and was the workhorse series that carried US mail oversea s to all theaters of war during World War II, the 8 cent stamp was added to the six series set in 1944, 8 cents, engraved and Rotary Press printed, perforated: 11x10½, olive green, Scott 2019 Catalog Value: 25¢, nicely centered, most probably a double strike cancel, the main, a quarter clockwise turned, vertical lined and numbered torpedo cancel, the second a black-inked, single-rimmed, circular cancellation on the lower left border, sound back, hinge remnant, good perforations This is not a 'bait-and-switch;' the stamp you see will be the one you receive.
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