Fred 2 Book

EARLY CENTS AUCTIONS

LOT 849 1848 N-42 R5+ VG10. Glossy light brown with slightly darker steel brown on the highpoints. Just trivial marks, none notable. The attribution points are clear.

LOT 848 1848 N-28 R1 EF40+. Five points sharper but cleaned and very nicely recolored glossy chocolate and medium brown. Smooth and nearly void of marks or other defects. LDS, die state c. The earlier die lines on the reverse are gone.

Ex Phyllis Thompson, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/ Goldbergs 1/31/2010:634-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

Ex Milt Pearlman 1969-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection

 CONDITION CENSUS N-44

LOT 850 1848 N-44 R5+ VF25. Ten points sharper with great eye appeal, but there are a few light contact marks The notable marks are a very short horizontal scratch near the dentils over star 3, a tiny rim nick left of star 5, and a couple others right of star 12. The reverse has a fresh, dull scrape down through the first T in STATES and a few tiny digs inside the wreath. Choice glossy chocolate brown with frost in protected areas. M-LDS, die state b. The die lines over UN are gone and the field is rising around much of the legend. The dies were freshly lapped and the fields are slightly reflective. A nice example of this tough die variety, CC#6 in the Grellman census.  Ex Rodney C. Burress 8/18/1988-Dr. Thomas S. Chalkley, Superior 1/28/1990:1027-Wesley A. Rasmussen, McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 2/8/1998:243-R. S. “Robbie” Brown, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Superior 6/2/2002:659-Daniel W. Holmes, Jr., McCawley & Grellman Auctions/Goldbergs 1/30/2011:327-Fred H. Borcherdt Collection (includes the Holmes collection envelope)

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