APS StampShow Edition $5 • Free To Clients August 16-18 James E. Lee's Sacramento, California Volume XIV • No. 4 Summer 2012 Whole No. 64 PPhilatelyhilately Unique Prexie Small Die Proofs 806P2 807P2 2c Rose-carmine on wove paper. 3c Deep violet on wove paper with small (EP46-01) $3,000.00 faults (a tiny thin). (EP46-02) $2,750.00 hese two die proofs have not seen the light of day in 37 years. In 1973, they appeared in the first Greg Manning auction. This sale was held on the behalf of The Philatelic Foundation. It contained only small die proofs starting with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition issue and ending with the 1945 Navy issue. These proofs had been donated to the PF by Stephen G. Rich sometime in the late 1940s.T Over half of the 263 lots went to dealers (Bob Siegel, Stampazine, Stanley Richmond, Richard Ellis and Scott). Another 14 lots went to agents, Ezra Cole and Lou Robbins, eight lots went to collectors on the floor, and 43 went to the book. These two proofs were purchased by Lou Robbins for an unnamed collector. They were part of a complete set of Presidential issue proofs which wound up selling individually. Both proofs brought the highest prices of any of the Prexie issues, $1,000.00 each. The Scott catalogue has barely moved in all of the years these proofs have been listed. We expect these to sell rather quickly. (847) 462-9130 James E.Lee, LLC Email:
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