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General Philatelic/Identify This? : Penny red or blue???

 

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Webb

05 Aug 2019
03:21:49am
Hello everybody, hope your day is going as good as mine.
I was looking through this massive old collection I purchased from an estate sale. World stamps and I came across a penny red, pretty common stamp I expect. Except this one was in its proper place, but it said
Type of 1841, bluish paper.Im researching , but if anybody hasHurry Upheard of anything like that let me know, k sorry no pics, still working on that..

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05 Aug 2019
07:47:02am
re: Penny red or blue???

From an early catalog on these issues
In 1841, as a safety measure, the post office changed the 1d black to red-brown and made the ink fugitive by adding the chemical "prussiate of potash".
If someone tried to remove the postmark, the ink would run
The paper was greyish white, and when it was wetted before printing you would get a blueish tint.
You will find imperf and perforated stamps with or without the blueing up to about 1857. Some catalogs wrongly described the paper as being blue"
Others think that it is simply a "chemical reaction" that occurred over time?

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Webb

05 Aug 2019
09:51:09am
re: Penny red or blue???

Holy crap, I'll bet you knew all of that off the top of your head. Amazing. How long you been collecting stamps?that is a really interesting history..well done

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..

05 Aug 2019
07:28:49pm
re: Penny red or blue???

" .... I'll bet you knew all of that off the top of your head. ...."

I'd
bet so as well.

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Webb

05 Aug 2019
03:21:49am

Hello everybody, hope your day is going as good as mine.
I was looking through this massive old collection I purchased from an estate sale. World stamps and I came across a penny red, pretty common stamp I expect. Except this one was in its proper place, but it said
Type of 1841, bluish paper.Im researching , but if anybody hasHurry Upheard of anything like that let me know, k sorry no pics, still working on that..

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SForgCa

05 Aug 2019
07:47:02am

re: Penny red or blue???

From an early catalog on these issues
In 1841, as a safety measure, the post office changed the 1d black to red-brown and made the ink fugitive by adding the chemical "prussiate of potash".
If someone tried to remove the postmark, the ink would run
The paper was greyish white, and when it was wetted before printing you would get a blueish tint.
You will find imperf and perforated stamps with or without the blueing up to about 1857. Some catalogs wrongly described the paper as being blue"
Others think that it is simply a "chemical reaction" that occurred over time?

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Webb

05 Aug 2019
09:51:09am

re: Penny red or blue???

Holy crap, I'll bet you knew all of that off the top of your head. Amazing. How long you been collecting stamps?that is a really interesting history..well done

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
05 Aug 2019
07:28:49pm

re: Penny red or blue???

" .... I'll bet you knew all of that off the top of your head. ...."

I'd
bet so as well.

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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
        

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