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Scott Number: R189 Collection Reference No. for Communications: 3659

Denomination/Type: $50 gray, open numerals surcharged in black, hyphen-hole perf. 7

2025 Scott Catalog Value: $ 140.00

Estimated Retail Value: $ 150.00 What is this?

Cancel Method: Multiple Cancel Types

Cancel Date: December 10, 1901

Cancel or Company Type: Railroad

Company: Northern Securities Co.

Valued as a cut cancel, but the cuts are only visible from the back of the stamp. Lovely example otherwise with well placed handstamp cancel. Cancel date is less than a month after the company was incorporated; the company was scandal-ridden and eventually sued by the company and forced to dissolve.

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