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Newfoundland 1857 1-Shilling Scarlet-Vermilion

Maker
Colony of Newfoundland
Year
1857
Rank
52 of 100

Newfoundland 1857 1-Shilling Scarlet-Vermilion

Newfoundland 1857 1-Shilling Scarlet-Vermilion by Colony of Newfoundland (1857) is ranked 52 in the FLOAT 100 for Stamps. It sold for $45,000 on 30 January 2014. Newfoundland's first stamps; the 1-shilling scarlet-vermilion is the rarest and most valuable of the colony.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

Newfoundland's first stamps; the 1-shilling scarlet-vermilion is the rarest and most valuable of the colony.

1/- scarlet-vermilion, the colony's rarest first-issue value; unused; Dauer Collection

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure
$45,000
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
30 January 2014

Spink New York, Dauer Collection, 30 Jan 2014: $45,000 unused.

This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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