I'm liking these Columbus Exposition stamps so much that I went out and bought a couple more. Here's one of them, a Scott #233.
You know Gunny, I don't know if it's the scan, lighting or denegration of the color, but that stamp sure looks a lot "bluer" than I have seen. You are aware that there is a 4c Columbian error of color that is extremely valuable? I don't want to get your hopes up or anything, but take a look at the links I am attaching. Perhaps it's just my eyes fooling me. But the link is interesting if nothing else. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nGapslfpa...VE/s1600/a32fa08f5c415b90671443c8ef114f3c.jpg http://stampcollectingresources.blogspot.com/2011/02/block-of-rare-16x-columbian-blue-error.html
Didn't know about that, but after your comment above, I went to http://www.theswedishtiger.com/233-scotts.html and read up on it. It appears that I have the normal one. The color error is a lighter blue as you can see on the link provided. I would have been nice to have lucked into the color error one as you can see by the auction prices realized which are listed at the same link that I provided.
Yeah, the color is supposed to like the 1c Columbian which it doesn't resemble, but at first glance it sure threw me for a loop.
I read up on the N.R.A. to see what it was about. I just didn't expect a hammer and sickle, the bold sun rays, the puffed out chests, the long stride. Made me think of the Soviet propaganda from the early 1900's.
For me, the NRA stamp is an Art Deco design and shares a couple of the standard Art Deco characteristics, i.e. the stylized sun rays and the slightly exaggerated stride of the people in the design. Also the clean font for the 3c denomination. Art Deco came out of the late 1920s from the designs used in the International Exhibit of Decorative Modern Arts held in Paris in 1925. France issued a commemorative set of Art Deco design stamps that year to commemorate the exhibition, see France Sc 220-225. I have seen a couple of references to the effect that FDR sketched the basic design of this stamp and there are many who consider him a political leftist. So, it may, indeed, contain echos of a revolutionary perspective. The US did not embrace Art Deco in its stamp design to the extent other nations did, but the US airmail C12 and C20 stamps posted above are also in that genre. The Zepps are also nice examples of Art Deco stamp design. I don't consider Art Deco design as originating from the revolutionary art of countries such as Russia, Mexico and some of the other Latin American countries, but conversely revolutionary art borrowing from the Art Deco movement. Don
My stamp of the day is the Scott 568 of Niagara Falls. Never been there, but would like to go at some point.
Received my first purchases from the APS Stamp Store. This Scott 63 was one of them. Appears to be a Wisconsin cancel.
