As well centered as both the stamp and cancel are, think the postmaster knew a collector? Back then people collected FDCs, Frist Day of Use, and...
The three volume set of Lester G. Brookman's United Stamps of the 19th Century, I bought mine probably 15 years ago, but now the The U.S. Philatelic...
My favorite stamp would be the very first 3 cent Agriculture, O3. Bought it through a mail sale out of Flordia, all the listing said was ..O3 used...
They look great, Gunny! The way cancellation on the 12 cent is a "way" postmark, which was applied either by the post rider or at the next post...
There is some collector interest, and clear "socked on the nose" cancels do add to the value. Partial strikes are seen often, not common by any...
New York and Boston are the only two major cities that I know of that used a special cancel for the postage due stamps. Great looking cancels.
Well on your way with the 1869's, here's the next three, well, actually I skipped 118. These are 116, 117, and 119. The 12 cent 117 has a WAY cancel,...
Gunny, that cancel on your nice looking J7 is called the New York String of Pearls, a wonderfully distinctive cancel. Here is a J6 with fresher...
Thanks zararina, just a little detailed conversation about 140 year old back of the book stamps, and the mysteries they leave behind. :)
Thanks! :) 28,000,000 printed on double paper out of the 1,661,295,500 total printed by Continental, lets just call them scarce if not rare. Here's...
Great recall. Another of Charles Steel's patents, in production a bit over 4 months with 28 million produced. Not exactly rare. That four month use...
I'm not sure that I would call the double papers rare, but certainly scarce. I think that they are just hard to spot, a lot of soft paper stamps may...
I'm pleased that tip showed you the ribbing. Now if you could help me figure out a way to easily scan a stamp to show that, I'd really be grateful....
Yes. In order to see the ribbed paper, you'll need to look at the stamps at an angle while the stamp is illuminated by an indirect light source....
You're welcome. Glad to be of some help. Can you see the ribbed paper? All second printings are on second printings, and will show fibers at the perf...
Since you have a shade disparity between your O10s and your O12s, compare your O10s to the O10xs above, if the overprint is blue, it is O10s, first...
Thank you. Every time I show that stamp, I think how much I'd like to have it that thin filled. I do think that it is amazing that when the thin was...
Thank you. One advantage of collecting the two California redwood logging counties that I do is that almost every postcard is either a RP ( Photo...
Sure is Gunny! I was born there almost 70 years ago. A mill town most of my life, but had a very ugly beginning. Began as a military post to control...
Thank you. I'm rather proud of them, but the stamp that started me on collecting those errors was this next stamp, and actually the first "Specimen"...
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