2004 Rarities of the World continued...

VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE COVER TO SOUTH AFRICA BEARING THE ALASKA-YUKON ATTLEBORO PRIVATE AFFIXING-MACHINE COIL.

In 1909 the Attleboro Stamp Company employed a stamp-affixing machine to apply postage to bulk mailings of its price lists and editions of the Attleboro Philatelist. Although the company served stamp collectors, the Attleboro coil appears to have been a purely utilitarian product, limited in its scope to the basic 1c and 2c stamps necessary for mailing and not intended to create new varieties for collectors. Examples of these coils are scarce to rare, with the pair of Scott 344 priced at $45,000.00 in Scott, among the highest values of all 20th century varieties. The cover offered here, paying the double registered rate to Transvaal, South Africa, is a unique usage of the 2c Alaska-Yukon with Attleboro perf.

With 2003 P.S.E. certificate

EXTREMELY FINE GEM. A SUPERB GUIDE LINE PAIR OF THIS COIL ISSUE.

With 1999 P.F. certificate (Image)

EXTREMELY FINE GEM. GUIDE LINE PAIRS OF THE 1910 ONE-CENT HORIZONTAL COIL WITH SINGLE-LINE WATERMARK ARE RARE IN THIS GRADE.

With 1987 P.F. certificate (Image)

EXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL GUIDE LINE PAIR OF THE RARE 1910 SINGLE-LINE WATERMARK 2-CENT HORIZONTAL COIL.

With 1972 and 2001 P.F. certificates. (Image)

EXTREMELY FINE GEM. AN OUTSTANDING MINT NEVER-HINGED GUIDE LINE PAIR OF THE 3-CENT 1911 HORIZONTAL COIL.

With 2003 P.F. certificate (Image)

EXTREMELY FINE. A CHOICE MINT NEVER-HINGED EXAMPLE OF THE 10-CENT PERF 10 PANAMA-PACIFIC ISSUE.

With 2001 P.F. certificate (Image)

EXTREMELY FINE GEM. A SUPERB MINT NEVER-HINGED GUIDE LINE PAIR OF SCOTT 444 IN THE FINEST ATTAINABLE CONDITION.

With 2003 P.F. certificate (Image)

EXTREMELY FINE. A RARE GUIDE LINE PAIR IN THIS OUTSTANDING MINT NEVER-HINGED CONDITION.

With 2004 P.F. certificate (Image)