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Nick Kirke Collection - The Number One Finest Set of All Time

1875 Reissues of 1869 Pictorials (Used)

Registrant's Email Address: kirke@philatelist.cz

Owner's Comments:
If any casual observer, in a moment of excruciating boredom, has taken the time to read some of the comments attaching to my Registry Sets they might appreciate that although I contribute, and indeed thoroughly enjoy, participating in PSE's Registry Sets,I do not do so uncomplainingly. Here is another set with an inbuilt illogicality. Sc125, the 3c blue, is not recorded used without faults ie a copy worthy of grading does not exist - see Siegel's excellent census. So I asked PSE if an exception could be made. I possess an unused copy graded 90. Could not an exception be made for this particlar stamp? Could I not include this unused copy in my Registry Set - with an appropriate note naturally? The answer was no. It is rather like listing a space for a 24c inverted Curtis Jenny used for completion of the first used U.S. airmail set. We do not know for certain that a used copy does not exist (just as with a sound used copy of Sc125) - but common sense dictates that is probably the case. I bought the unused 125 for 'completion' of a sound used set. I believe it remain a good substitute worthy of inclusion.

Nick Kirke Collection
Item	Scott No.	Issue Date	Denom	Color	PSE Grade	Pop*	Pop Higher*	J Pop Higher*	Condition	Owner's Comments
1c	123	1875	1c	Buff	95	5	1	0	Used
2c	124	1875	2c	Brown	90	4	4	2	Used
3c			3c
6c	126	1875	6c	Blue	95	1	1	0	Used
10c	127	1875	10c	Yellow	90	3	1	1	Used
12c	128	1875	12c	Green	90	4	1	0	Used
15c	129	1875	15c	Brown & blue	90	9	1	1	Used
24c	130	1875	24c	Green & violet	90	5	4	1	Used
30c	131	1875	30c	Ultra & Carmine	98	2	0	0	Used
90c	132	1875	90c	Carmine & black	90	1	2	0	Used
1c	133	1880	1c	Buff	95	2	1	1	Used

* Pop (population) values are the number of stamps graded by Scott number and condition for each item listed.
Pop Higher values represent the number of stamps which are worth more points in the Registry, taking into account bonus points for Jumbos whereas 80J = 83, 85J = 88, 90J = 93, 95J = 97, 98J = 99, 100J = 102. J Pop Higher values are the number of Jumbos graded higher for each item listed.