#17 Prince Albert

Hello Victorian Philatelists

Here's my First Cents Issue. Sadly, I'm missing #16.



I got the three #17's from a BC dealer last year and I'm trying to remember which was what. I'm pretty sure the last two are:
#17b brown and #17 red lilac.
But what's the first one. It's grey!
So I figure it must be #16 and I'm $3,500.00 richer than I thought.

Could someone please set me straight?
Thanks

Number 16 should have 11 3/4 perf. all around

By the way, Sak, these stamps are beautiful, especially their centering, which is difficult to find with 4 nice margins.

Thanks for the note, Gilles le T. I went back to look at the Unitrade listings and saw what you meant. #16/17 must be very difficult stamps to collect. "26 printings".
I noticed that #17b brown & shades can be perf. 11 3/4, too.
Needless to say, my grey stamp measured close to both perfs. I could not tell.
Since it's not black BROWN, but grey, I wonder if it's a faded colour variant of #17a violet.
Yeah, I tried to get them nicely centred. I kinda like the red cancel on the blue Cartier (my avatar)