Amazing Strip Of 9 Type IV Scott #9 Franklin On Cover

Spectacular cover! I don't know about the price--seems steep in the current market, even for a strip of 9 and with a cert--but it caught my breath for sure. POS 91-99L per the cert.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/26280153219...RK:MEBIDX:IT

Best of luck finding anything remotely close on cover. Finding a strip of 9 is one thing but commercially used on cover is a completely different story. I also can't speak about the price but pricing commercially used covers is difficult thing due to the variables.

That is a cool piece. I wish the top of stamps were better (I.e better centered). Definitely a special item. Thanks for sharing

That's a really neat item - I have not seen that before, and it is very special. There aren't many strips of 9 on cover, with the one-cent 1851 issue stamps.

I can think of three others off-hand, and I believe that there are a few more after that - not a lot. There is the nice 2-10R1L cover which if I recall, has pretty nice margins. I think that might be in Gross's collection now. That is Ty IV. There is the 2-10L2 (2L2 crack) cover, on a triple-rate legal cover. I used to have that one. Don't know where it is now. The strip is a bit better condition than this one, but the overall cover is reduced some if I recall. Then there is a pen-cancelled (I think) cover with a strip that I want to say starts with maybe 51L1L. I haven't seen it in awhile ... might be ex-Grunin, don't recall, but its out there.

I agree with others - at the height of the market this 91L1L strip would certainly be worth what the seller is asking. Lets just say I would have bought it for his asking price 15 years ago. grin. At this point in time, this is the type of really nice item, that just isn't selling.

man that one special cover-9 on a cover-wow