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Scott Number: R61a Collection Reference No. for Communications: 5295

Denomination/Type: 50c Passage Ticket, blue, imperforate

2025 Scott Catalog Value (for a single stamp): $ 140.00

Estimated Retail Value: $ 120.00 What is this?

Cancel Method: Handstamped - Circle

Cancel Color: Black

Cancel Date: May 04, 1866

Cancel or Company Type: Steamship, Shipping, or Maritime

Company: Charles W. Brooks & Co.

City: San Francisco

State: California

Shipping and commission merchants and agents, Hawaiian Packet Line for Honolulu. An example of what I call 'The California Late Imperfs'. Normally imperforates and part perfs with late cancel dates are an immediate red flag for fakery... the one notable exception being a cache/hoard of imperfs that apparently resurfaced from storage late in the taxation period in California, that are legitimate imperforates and part perfs. Normally you don't find imperfs used after 1864, but California examples can be found MUCH later.

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