Nice Ebay Find- 1857 3c Double Transfer

Purchased a lot of 3c 1851's and 1857's on ebay before vacation this past week, and got to take a look at them today-- I knew there were a few Type I (#25) in there, which is why I made the purchase, but here is a better find:

It is shown on page 59 of the 1942 Chase book, and it shows 91R(12?). I don't know if it's been proven since then to have come from plate 12 or not.

Really nice showing of the DT at the bottom, and in the rosettes. Thought y'all would enjoy seeing this one....
Ray

Very nice. I've got a few with light upper doubled rosette center circles. However nothing as distinct as this. Thanks for sharing!

Good one. If it looks too out of place amongst all of those 65's I could probably make a spot for it.

Lovely item. As a collector of DT's I'm jealous.

A great pickup, and a jumbo too! Congrats!

My 1975 edition still shows this as "91R(12?)," but your stamp was later confirmed as 91R11L.

Actually hard to believe this stamp is even real....
Based on plating....it is the LL stamp on the sheet...
pos 91....
What makes it hard is the space to the right, vertical.
I see no evidence of another stamp visible.
The spacing on this issue was tiny....

Why such a large margin @ right???

The image makes it appear larger then it actually is. Notice the stamp shows on the left margin, and that margin is much larger.

One possibility for the large spacing to the right is that the plates from this period of time don't have even spacing. Many of the rows and columns are far from in line with each other.

HDNAC....I understand that.
Show me another 25/26 that has this wide spacing....
Any position.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY THIS WIDE SPACED!!

As I said, it's not so wide. The right margin is only about the same width as the diamonds running vertically between the portrait and the frameline. Look at a another example in person and you will see that that is really not so wide. The "wide margins" are an optical illusion created by the size of the scan.

I suggest you look on the PF site at cert 523633. Some of the covers also have examples this size. Not super common perhaps, but hardly unique.

http://pfsearch.org/pfsearch/

Here is the lot that I bought on ebay. I could see several 25's from the scan, and didn't notice this one or the 11 with the ....SHIP cancel either. Ended up that there were also 2 badly centered 26A's and a faulty MNH 26. Pretty nice lot overall.

221910922942 lot #

When you look at the entire lot, the margins on this stamp jump right out at you. Too bad the perfect aren't 100% sound or this might could be a a showpiece....