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Now in my Collection - Great Britain, Queen Victoria Jubilee, Complete set MNH - 1887-92. Scott #111-122 and SG197-210
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Not new but in hiding for many years
Schuylers Lake with LOV monogram cancel - rated scarce in cole's
Oriskany Falls Horseshoe as receiver
Middlesex Vermont small grid ?
Montepelier Vermont fancy
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Wine Stamp Series 1914, cancelled Nov 1914 RE3 (I have not confirmed this yet dealer says RE3).
Common stamp yes, uncommon with Nov 1914 date cancel!
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1899,
I'm gonna ask a crazy question here but why would a Nov. 1914 cancel be rare on a "Series 1914" revenue stamp?
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Good question.
In an effort to find factual information I've researched the Treasury Dept., have not found the annoucent for the series 1914 information. I'm still researching the actual date for wine stamps. I have (not confirmed yet) for wine stamps when in 1914 Nov. were required!
Point of fact I did not say it is rare, I said uncommon!
Now I have a question for you. Do you know the actual date (Day, Month, Year), that wine stamps were requied?
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"Now I have a question for you. Do you know the actual date (Day, Month, Year), that wine stamps were requied?"
No, but from the sound of your original post, you sounded like did know and that this stamp represented some type of outlier? To me, at first blush, looks like a EXTREMELY common stamp (in every way). Dude, I'm not trying to "call you out" or flame you.... You threw it out there that this was a special stamp. I'm just saying that I'm not seeing it.
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Let me try again.
This stamp without a cancel is very common!
This stamp with a Nov. 1914 date is uncommon (not RARE). Because I found with Nov. 1914, I've been searching for over 20 years! There should be thousands of these dated 1914, but this is the first in 20 years I've found.
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"...but this is the first in 20 years I've found."
Now I get it! Thank you. I learned something... and Congrats on finding something you've been lookin for.
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Another wine stamp, this is the one I bid on, when received the deal included the RE3 (not confirmed yet), as a gift I guess.
Anyway dealer claims it is RE55. I'll be confirming this later, the cancel is why I bid on it.
Lucy me!
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This folded letter arrived today. I bought it for the "V" cancel. Included with the letter was information about the recipient, C.J. Folger and a transcription of the letter. It's nice when te previous owner does the research, makes it easier for me.
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I have been looking for the Blackjack cover and enclosure for awhile - finally found it and thought the illustrated steam engine cover nest ti it might be of interest as well. Yes, it's scissors cut but it is an 85B "Z" grille so it retains some value, especially with the enclosure.
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This arrived today in the mail. It has a "Bottle Stopper" cancel, size #3 in the center, from Clinton, MA.
The message on the card refers to fire damage to some property.
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Henry,
the scissors cut OUTSIDE the perfs, leaving the stamp fully intact. Wouldn't that then retain the full value of the stamp? Just curious.
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David,
Being on cover and including the letterhead I think you are correct. Pricing varies all over the place on these things anyway. And Blackjacks are noted for lousy centering.
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Now in my Collection - Great Britain, this is the last Issue from the Queen Victoria, Complete set of two, MNH - 1887-92. Scott #125-126 and SG213-214.
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Perkins & Jackson, New York.
Still working on research and etc.
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my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1880 Issue, One Shilling - MLH, rich color. Scott #87 - SG163, Plate 13 - (TK).
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Now in my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1840 Issue, Penny Black - rich color. Used with 4 excellent margins, Red Maltese Cross, with the listed " Left side line recut and upper left corner has sideline recut and thickened " varieties Also "Ray Flaws 10 / 7 NW Square " variety. Scott #1 - SG2, Plate 1b, (FH).
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@rtvstamps reference your posting of: 11 Feb 2025
01:44:46pm
Under the "K" bottom right orientation, is the mark ".", some kind of stray mark, or part of the design?
Would you agree or disagree that this was a dry print? See the letters on "ONE SHILLING"
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Yes, it is a dry print with the dot under the "K", but it seems that S. Gibbons does not care, as in the Penny Blacks, where he does point out those that have a dot and certain "different" attributes. 
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Now in my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1867 Issue, MLH, Four Pence Gray Brown, (MF), Plate 17 - Wmk. 30, Sc.84 - SG160
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Now in my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1840 Issue, Penny Black - (Greyish Black). Used with 4 excellent margins, Red Maltese Cross. Scott #1 - SG3, Plate 6, (NL), State 1. Some dots on check letters and worn plate.
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Premium stamp for sure. Look at those margins. Wow!
Beautiful stamp Rodolfo.
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Thanks so much for your comments Ernie. That's right, when a Penny Black has wide margins, they look more spectacular. Above this post I posted another of my recent Penny Black acquisitions and the margins are even larger, beautiful too!
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Rodolfo,
Yes! I must have missed it. That F-H is a freak of nature. Do you mount these together somehow?
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Hi Ernie,
Thanks for your kind comments!. Thanks for your comments. I have them on Hagner stock sheets.
I was looking for a Lighthouse album that included the English stamp plates, but I'm not convinced. I finally found my old work from 2005, where I made my own album, and I'll mount them there. I'm in the process of adding the supports to start the migration.
I still need to add more elements to this sheet; the information small paper are missing, and from there, my database.
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Rodolfo,
What a wonderful collection of Penny Blacks. Love the eye for detail and quality; truly special. I have always considered myself a U.S. collector but I do have a soft spot in my heart for early Great Britain. Check out my collection of early British stamps; I think the Penny Black is the best. Here's the kicker... they are all E-J my initials!
Ernie
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04:12:25pm
What an incredible accomplishment, it must have been very hard to do. I'd love to try to do the same but unfortunately my initials are JW! 
By the way, I don't think any stamp collection is complete without a Penny Black. I picked up one several years ago and it is one of my favourite pieces even though GB is not one of the countries I collect!
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I love my Penny Black, especially with its Red Maltese Cross Cancel!
It was a gift from one of my stamp collecting friends, when I began collecting.
I admire it every day!
It would be impossible for me to have one with my initials. A d B!
I love early great Britain, and am working on a larger British collection as well.
-Ari 
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"ernie wrote: Rodolfo,
What a wonderful collection of Penny Blacks."
Thanks for your comments, what nice stamps you have! . Yes, for me the engravings on the stamps of Great Britain are beautiful!.
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06:57:55pm
Just bought this nice pair of red precancels on black 2 cent Hardings. Nice stamps, if anyone collects Virginia precancels I really don't need both, no charge if you want one of them. I'm pretty sure they're legit since Gunesch mentions this particular red precancel in his section on coloured precancels! I'll probably keep the right-side-up one since it's the better strike.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/276934461009
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Here are the most recent ones to that will be added to my collection and are the best ones pulled from the very large lot I got on eBay. I finally got a really nice bright sunny day to identify colors and grills. I'm still pinching myself because in the lot is an 85c. Thats right a Z grill! I've checked it 3 times and it is 11mm x 14mm with 13 by 17 points facing down. It was in a glassine by itself with a note from the past owner to have it sent in to get expertised. Like most grilled stamps it has in pencil on the back of the stamp what someone from years gone by a catalog # as to what they thought it was/is. That is what I always double check with my precision U.S. specialty multi-gauge and specialized color gauge specific to those stamps.
Those tools are by far and large some of the smartest philatelic purchases I have ever made. That is enough rambling. Here are the pictures and there will be more in later posts.
Jeremy
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There will be still more pictures to follow.
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01:48:52pm
Great stuff Sarge, ending up with an 85C is fantastic - well done!!!! I'm an old fashioned album collector and it doesn't even show 85C. To finish my page I need 84, 85E, 86 and 101. All expensive and all unlikely, but here's hoping! Again, great find!!!
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Thank you Harvey. It is a pleasant find for sure. Here are 6 more pictures of some unused material that came with the lot. There is a lot more to the lot way too much to take pictures of. 
Jeremy
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Congrats on your eBay purchase. Looks like you will have many fun hours ahead!
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Wow!
Congrats Sarge!
Which gauge do you use?
-Ari 
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A few minutes ago 
I received a package with more than 2,800 stamps and 280 mini-sheets and souvenir sheets, all MNH and complete sets! 
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Ari I used the gauge in the photo with the Scott color guide. It is the precision multi gauge.
Jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy!
I guess I missed that.
I think I should go get one soon.
A Z grill!
Wow!
-Ari
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Arrived for my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1887-92 Issues, MLH, Catalogue Scott No.113a 2p Green & Vermilion and No. 113 Green & Car Rose from British Catalogue SG199 2d Green & Scarlet, SG200 Grey, Green & Carmine. The stamp 113a/SG199 is very scarce.
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R196 Wmk 190 One Cent Series 1914 cancel dated Dec 12, 1914, almost SON, perf. 10x10x10x10.
Shop worn condition.
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I just got these beauties in the mail. Fly speckers can you find the oddities with the cat# 701 and the 702's also notice the color shade varieties in 4 of the rotary press printings.
Jeremy
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Working on my US today!
Here is a stamp I'm adding!
A nice Design Shift!
-Ari
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Ari,
Nice find.
You have a very nice freak there very worthy of discussion. Have you figured out what design type it is yet? I really like the vignette shift. It also looks to have a bit of double impression too.
Jeremy
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A scan would help greatly!
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08:49:47am
That shows the shift very nicely, a further scan is not needed!!
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I agree this photo shows the design shift nicely.
I do not see the reported double impression. Could arrows show the double impression areas be added?
A scan would show this stamp much better, just a suggestion!
Reverse image would be nice to see?
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I bought up 5 different lots in the past couple of days. One of the lots having a Blackjack #73 vertical half bisect used for the 3 cent rate off of the cover unfortunately but it's still a nice find and I cant wait to post a picture of it when it arrives here. The seller doesn't know what it is. His loss my gain. That is the crown jewel of all of the lots I bought and there are plenty of other really nice stamps in all of the lots. So stay tuned.
Jeremy
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Its so fun to see all this different stuff. Thanks for sharing all!
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Now in my Collection - Mexico 3c. Brown, Imperial Eagle of Maximilian I Emperor of Mexico - 36-1865, issued in February 23, 1865, with 4 great marrgins and fresh color with original gum, MLH - Scott No.18
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Good morning (my time)
It's not important, just interested, upper right corner there appears to be a mark, is this just a stray mark or something else?
Issued in February 23, 2865?
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Nothing major, just a mark outside the margin that doesn't affect the stamp. The date has been corrected, thanks.
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In the photo is 3 of the 5 lots that arrived here yesterday evening. I spent the morning identifying and successfully completed the task with 100% success. Not a lot of money was spent here but there is tremendous value. At the expense of my willingness to do what some others refuse to do which is resource the information for my benefit and their loss.
Starting at the top left just like reading a book and in the list below by Scott Catalog #:
Cat#
10 with a fancy blue cancel.
26
36 with a fancy paid cancel
65
77
78 Gray Lilac changeling with a fancy blue town cancel. It almost looked like it was steel blue at a glance but after very close inspection it is a changeling.
71
113
115
116 with a double split grill and fancy red cancel.
119
151
163 with a fancy blue cancel
190
210
213
The complete set of 219 - 229 to include 219d and 220a with the cap on the left numeral 2. It has taken all 3 lots that I got to complete the set. Truth told the set is still lacking the 220b caps on both numeral 2's. But I'll get one in do time. Take a close look at the #229. There is an arrow at the top right in the margin to let the clerk know where to cut and separate the sheets.
326
E-5 it is watermarked.
R44c
R13c
R18c
RB2a
RB65
RS249b
RS75a
RS35 that measures 24mm x 30mm Imperforate silk paper. It's too bad it isn't the larger design.
Last but not least is the cigarette tax stamp from the 1883 series TA 21c.
Jeremy
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That's a great lot Sarge,
There are some beautiful stamps there as well as some serious catalog value. I'm jealous!
Ernie
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Thank you Ernie,
The last 2 lots that I ordered will be here tonight and I'll post up some pictures of them tomorrow. One of those lots I cant remember which one right now has the #73 vertical bisect for the 3 cent rate off of the cover and I cant wait to get my tongs on it for closer inspection. I have always heard of bisect cut stamps and even seen pictures in magazines and catalogs. I'll have to post pictures of that one by itself along with some of the others individually from the other lots.
Jeremy
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@Sarge
ref your post dated 08 Apr 2025 01:04:34pm
This is a lot that is fun to id. Measure the perfs with the correct perf guage, watermarking them my method, etc., and more etc. I know of at least one sor member who never checks the watermarks stamps, even says he never checks the back of his stamps.
When I start id. a lot like this I always start looking at the back first!
Do you have a scanner? I ask as I'd like to see (no trouble for you I hope) the scan front and back of 226?
Again this is a fun lot.
Hope your collecting future will be fun!
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1899,
It is no problem to a scan of both sides of the 226. I'll have to do it in a while. I have to go pick my son up from school. By the way I always check for watermarks because it can mean the difference between a stamp that is worth a .25 cents or several hundred or even thousands of dollars.
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Here is the last lot. I must be deranged to buy so many lots and give myself a bunch of duplication aka trading/selling material. But it's worth it when I find treasures like this. #73 vertical bisect for the 3 cent rate.
Jeremy
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08:10:46pm
Bisects really should be tied to a cover or a piece of one to be really looked on as a bisect. I have a bisect of a Nova Scotia stamp that's tied to a piece but I'm still suspicious. I still think yours is a great find but if you ever try to sell it as a bisect you might have a problem - just sayin'!!
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"Bisects really should be tied to a cover or a piece of one to be really looked on as a bisect."
I didn't want to say it but.... yeah, unless it's tied to a cover with a cancel isn't it just a stamp that's cut in half?
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I hear you guys. I think it's a shame that it isn't tied to a cover but it is still a nice conversation piece and more importantly it is mine now.
Jeremy
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08:37:09pm
I was watching a stamp "thing" somewhere, can't remember where, where a "faker" faked a bisect tied to a cover and there was (supposedly) no way to tell. It's scary what these people can do!!
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Lots of faking has been going on for a very long time - ink is easily removed, whether fountain pen or ball point. My dad made extra money when he attended Norwich U back in the early 40's by altering dates on ID's. He said the main problem was getting the ink color correct, purple being the hardest color to match. Not much new under the sun.
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Your possible bisect #73, is it real or not?
My take on this question:
I don't know if it is a real bisect or not, but I know there is a chance it could be real!
I like your statement "more importantly it is mine now."
Good luck with chasing down if it is or is not real.
If it is real or not I think you have a stamp that is outstanding interest.
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09:15:31am
"If it is real or not I think you have a stamp that is outstanding interest"
I agree with 1899 on that point, it's a great looking stamp that I would like to have in my collection. I know you're not interested in value but it could not be valued as a bisect since there is no way to be sure. But as an interesting item, that it definitely is!! Great find!
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You all are correct. I don't care about the value of the stamp for a monetary gain. It is far more valuable for a research project to get answers to the questions posed already and those that will be posed in the future. Believe me I have a ton of them that will raise a lot of eyebrows I'm sure especially about this particular stamp. For the sake of not hijacking this thread I'll post the discussion of my stamp in the appropriate sub-forum.
So let's see what others have acquired and keep this thread going.
Jeremy
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A good lot Sarge! Something I'd love to search through.
My pictorial freak, is a #119.
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@Sarge
If you are interested in double transfers on the Columbian stamps 230-245 (there are tons of double transfers and other plate varieties to look for!)
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1899,
Yes I am interested in learning about double transfers and how to spot them.
Jeremy
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Here is some information from a friend of mine wrote.
Next page
In the morning I try to load some of varieties I've duscovered over the last 45 years.
I'm a retired U. S. Air Force Master Sergeant and spent a long time in Europe which is a good place to fund U.S. stamps and varieties.
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U.S. # 71 used.
I'm excited to add this one to my collection. Intense color. Can I call this VF? right side looks a little close for VF but with these early ones who knows.
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Since March 24, 2025, in my collection: Mexico, Imperial Eagle of Maximilian I, ½ royal lilac (now scarce or rare). Wet printing. With name "MORELIA" District, 84-1865 (District number 84, year 1865). Used with CDS - "FRANCO - ADMON. PRAL. DE CORREOS DE MORELIA". 1000 copies were overprinted with this issue on May 18, 1865, and very few have been seen. Scott no. 20d.
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Ernie,
That 30c IS A BEAUTY!!
One, I'd love in my set.
When my budget expands...
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Thanks Ari, really wasn't THAT much.. I've got # 70 on the way also. Stay tuned!
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1899,
I'm sorry that I didn't respond sooner. I have been as busy as a one legged man in a butt kicking contest. You know the types of things: daddy day care and hobo the handyman etc...
Thank you for asking me to take a photo of the 226 and posting it here. You have a great eye for the EFO's and I think that you may have discovered another plate variety. If I am not mistaken this will be a cracked plate variety. What do you think?
That didn't harm me at all now did it?
Jeremy
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@Sarge
I really cannot tell for sure, now it looks like a crease to me, sorry I just can't tell for sure.
I've been busy, my daughter wants me to make planters.
I'm working on a bookcase for my bedroom.
I think for me the image of the reverse made the difference for me and makes me think it's a crease, thank you!
Sorry I don't think its a cracked plate, you have the best sets of eyes as you have this stamp in person.
You sound like your are working harder then the kitchen police in the mess.
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KP would be much less challenging. Scrubbing pots, pans, peeling potatoes and taking out the trash would be a cake walk. Been there done that. I wouldn't trade what I have and where I'm at in life for the world.
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1899,
I believe that you are right in saying that it is a fold in the paper. I also believe that it could very well be a cracked plate too. Where the fold starts at the top of the frame line all the way to the perforations can be seen with naked eye and the back of the stamp clearly shows evidence of this too.
Here is what I am looking at though. In the lines of the design within the circled part of the stamp starting at the frame shows where ink has filled in the crack joining all of the lines together. There is a lot more to the crack but this is the spot that I can see with the naked eye and I do where glasses too.
Thank you again for asking me to post a picture of the front and back of the stamp. If I hadn't this one would've got passed by without your request to do so.
Jeremy
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You make a good point, I'll have to think about this one, you have a good eye!
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Thank you for the kind comment 1899.
Now let's see what others have. I've highjacked this thread long enough.
Jeremy
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12:00:52pm
Two relatively new stamps on this page. The 78a at the end of the last row and the 70d in the lower left corner. I consider the page to be complete since the crossed out stamps are no longer considered to be regular issues, most are trial colours. Again I apologize for the glare, my photo person had a bad day!!
I'm pretty sure all these stamps are properly ID'ed but this early US stuff can be a major pain!!
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Very nice SF cog cancel!
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03:56:40pm
I noticed that on that page I have two of the cog cancels, one type 1 and one type 3. I have no idea where I got that information from. I think it was a post here but I can't remember! Can anyone remember where the post was?
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I picked this up this week. It is an invitation to The Schenectady Stamp Club Tenth Annual Christmas Dinner, 1942, on a blank V-Mail letter. It has the menu and program are printed on the inside and the club members signed it. Some thought was put into this.
Here is a close up of the stamp. It appears that the real postage stamp was soaked off and a composite of an Italian, German & Japanese placed in its place.
This is a V-Mail blank for comparison.
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The V-Mail letter is a beauty.
Thanks for showing it to us.
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So many great items that many of you have been fortunate to add to your collecting interests!
To change it up a bit, I acquired not a stamp or cover, but a couple packs of supplies from our local Hobby Lobby;
I was looking for something else there - not stamp related - when I happened to see these in the discount section of the back wall;
At this deep a price cut, how could I not get them?? I only wish there were more than two packs!
I use black mounts for a few of my albums, including US revenue, mint US, US possessions and a couple other albums.
Would love to see Hobby Lobby do this again! Unfortunately, it was probably a onetime thing to get rid of and stop carrying them.
Oh, well - can't beat a 32 cent price tag, anyway!
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Good score Randy! I had no idea Hobby Lobby carried mounts.
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Having fun handling these two today. The # 70 (a variety), looks good next to the # 71 I snagged a few weeks ago. Kinda feels like this is how a classic U.S. stamp collection comes together. Lemme know if you wanna see the backsides. 
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@Vinman: You said (about that V-Mail club invitation), " Some thought was put into this."
Thought? What thoughts? About supporting the Axis? It is an odd item, posted just over a year after Pearl Harbour! Looks to me like everyone signing it was a Nazi. Am I missing something?
Bob
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I took it as dark humor with the signatures being of club members heading off to war to fight adolph, benito and hiro.
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Bob, WOW! How you came to the conclusion that this was in any way supporting the Axis is a mystery to me. It is just satire "not dark humor" during WWll, nothing more. I have many covers from that era that show the same kind of satire.
The thought that went into this starts with the special stamp issued by the Axis. It is not a real stamp, just a fake made up from a German, Italian and Japanese stamps, just satire.
The return address is a shot at the Axis again, nothing nefarious. More thought to come up with that address.
More thought went into the letter to MR. A.D., “Our understanding that a large group of you will be coming our way, so “we’ll be seeing you” "(we fear)” signed by Adoph, Beneet, and Hiroheet, more fun at their expense and their names.
There is even an area saluting club members serving in The Armed Services with a flag decal, very American & patriotic.
I am at a loss to where you came up with the club members being Nazis.
You asked “Am I missing something? Yes, a sense of humor. 
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I found this in a collection. This was one owner's single country album two chipboard pieces for front and back cover with some Begium Scott pages. They also used string but also staples for binding.
I do not use Scott worldwide album pages but noticed that Scott pages prior to them adding catalog numbers tended to be in chronological order so "scott sets" were split into years rather than Scott order.
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This was in an accumulation. It was loaded with stock transfer forms.
I do not collect them but seems interesting,
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I found this in my dad's collection. He had marked it as a telegraph but it is not. The overprint is missing "HAB". Scott warns about counterfeit overprints but these do not seem to have much value.
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My daughter and my son in law just visited Rome. They were really excited to just-so-happen-to be-there during the Conclave. She was eager to tell me about everything she was able to see.
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That was the trip of a lifetime. I'm envious.
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I recently purchased this cover. It is an Adversity Cover. It was used twice to save paper. It was first sent from Cleveland, NY with the 3 cents stamp and reused by turning the cover inside out and resending from Cleveland, NY. I am unable to decipher the town name from where it was sent.
I chose to do the repairs on the side with Cleveland postmark to show the side with the stamp. A previous owner plated the stamp as 85L2, 3 recuts in upper left diamond.
Before
After
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A few Olympic stamps that I added yesterday while at a local stamp bourse here in Texas. I am currently working on building a collection of Olympic stamps issued by host countries. So the France (SC#200) completes a four stamp set from the 1924 Paris Olympics. The Japanese souvenir sheet is from the 1964 Toyoko Summer Olympics, along with three other stamps commemorating individual sports of those Games. Then the Norway set of three from the 1952 Winter Games held in Oslo.
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@Vinman,
You wrote, “WOW! How you came to the conclusion that this was in any way supporting the Axis is a mystery to me. It is just satire "not dark humor…"
Mea culpa! My apologies! Obviously, I rushed to a conclusion without evidence. Note to self: Read first, think, put fingers on keyboard, type, read what you write, and then hit ‘send’. Or, better still, hit delete!”
You accused me of not having a sense of humour. Ouch! I actually do enjoy a sense of humour. Here’s a joke to prove it:
A man, a stranger, is walking along a country road from one small town to another. He stops to ask a farmer in a field how long it would take him to reach the next town. The farmer listens, but doesn’t say anything.
The man, dumfounded at the farmer’s rudeness, shakes his head in disbelief and continues walking. Moments later, the farmer shouts after him: “Two hours!”
The man turns around and says, “Why didn’t you tell me when I asked?”
The farmer says, “I had to see how fast you walked!”
See? Sense of humour! I do have to say, though, that I cannot find any humour in war, except perhaps for rueful laughter at the bungling politicians and generals and admirals who cause it. One of the great problems in our troubled world is that we try to dehumanize our enemies. It may give the one's "poking fun" at their enemies to provide some sense of purpose and solidarity with their friends, but it can only anger one's enemies. In Vietnam — even before we went to Vietnam — we were assured that the Viet Cong were small, physically weak, stupid, and had poor eyesight, just as the Japanese were supposed to have been in the Second World War. In other words just seemed natural. I wish they had been all of those things; if they had been, my life following my "duty" in Vietnam would have been a lot happier and less physically painful and debilitating, and a lot more American soldiers might have survived to go home to their friends and families.
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Well put Bob!
I try to look before I leap.
We should stay on our recent acquisitions!
Here is one of mine!
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Received recently (before the postal strike/slowdown/whatever), Papua New Guinea MNH C2-4:
I don't generally care for overprinted stamps, but I am a sucker for well-designed airmail overprints featuring clear, sharp images of aircraft, like these.
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@Bob
Thanks for the joke, you do have a sense of humor. 
I think if you were able to look at the V-Mail in your hands and not just a computer screen it might have made more sense, and the intention would have been clearer.
True, war is not a laughing matter. We have been poking fun at it since at least the Civil War here in the States.
I do collect “Patriotic Covers” from WW2, some I post here but there are others I just keep in my collection, should I say they are not “politically correct or appropriate” for this site.
I didn’t realize that other countries also made Patriotic covers and poked fun at their enemies. What a surprise when I saw some WW2 covers and cards from Germany and Italy.
I’ll start another recent acquisitions thread later today and show the batch of V-Mail I picked up from Jim Forte a few months ago.
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Just picked this up!! Very interesting vending machine perforations. It is supposedly mint with original gum but I can't show the stamps back side until I get the stamp!! I have quite a few Shermacks, I think this one is Brinkerhoff Company line pair of Scott #408!!! I'd really like to get more of these vending machine stamps, maybe one of each type, but some types are very pricey!
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In one old album I bought in last January from Central America I found this stamp from Nicaragua, Coat Of Arms, 2c on 10c Red, October 1911 Issue - (Timbre Fiscal - Vale 10 ctvs." used with blue postmark with Surcharge Inverted, (CORREOS 02 Centavos). Scott No. 287a.
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Future Delivery RC21 U. S. A. Revenue Stamp.
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From my Collection: Maximilian Empire, Imperial Eagle, 2 reales Yellow. Second Period, 141-1864 - District "MORELIA" (141) used in Sub-District No. 8 "PURUANDIRO" with Schatzkés Postmark No. 978 "FRANCO EN PURUANDIRO" with 20 points of rarity!. Only 500 stamps were printed with these numbers and many were sent to many Sub-Offices, from this Sub-8 only has seen till 7 stamps!, now is considered a scarce stamp!
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Scott Cat. Revenue Rl1 Certificate of payments of tonnage duty. U. S. Customs House Port of New York.
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Rl1 on instrument rare usage
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From my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1878 Issue, VFU, One Pound, Plate 1, (HA), Brown Lilac - Wmk. 26, Sc.75 / SG129, Shifted left, used with CDS "LONDON" - March 9, 1880.
GREAT BRITAIN, NUMBERS ISSUED 1840 to 1910 Catalogue
Compiled by RIKKI C. HYDE
£1 BROWN-LILAC
Watermark Maltese Cross – Perforation 15½ × 15 – Issued in sheets
of 80
Total number issued 242,000 (3,025 sheets)
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Bill of lading Boston Feb 1802.
For 30 boxes of cards.
There is 2 embossed Revenue impressions, but I'm unable to make a position identification for either one yet!
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From my Collection: Barbados, The Britannia Issue, 1p Blue, Mint VLH, 1872 Issue - Wmk. 5, (small Star) - Clean-Cut Perf. 14½.
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Just picked this up on E-Bay https://www.ebay.ca/itm/135906410952 I paid more than I really wanted to but it's a really nice precancel for my unusual precancel collection! It looks like an arrow going toward a bird. Does anyone know if this is some kind of state or town symbol? Can't find anything about it on Google.
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Dept. of the Treasury, Applicaton to make and register a firearm
I make this out to be RY11
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From my collection: Nicaragua, Revenue Stamps Surcharged: Green "5 Pesos CORREOS 1907 - OFICIAL 5 Pesos" on 5c. Brown. Scott No.O186. Blue "70 cents. CORREOS 1908 - OFICIAL 70 CENTS" on 2c. Scott No. O201 Orange. and "2 pesos CORREOS 1908 - OFICIAL 2 PESOS" on 2c. Orange. Scott No.O209. I love this type of engravings with beautiful details!.
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United States of America
Revenue Stamp
R221 inscribed "Series 1914" (see ribbons by value) $10, date usage 1934, 20 years after issue date.
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Thanks Doug, I agree, really nice stamp!! I paid a bit more than I planned but it seems that the really interesting precancels go for more! I have a list of all the towns with unusual precancels and saved searches on E-Bay for all of them. Slowly, but surely, I'm getting there!! I'm only after one of each so, except for the couple or really pricey ones, I should eventually finish!
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Joint regulations governing the treatment of dutiable and supposed dutiable articles received in the mail from foreign countries. Feb 1907
Post Office Seal with the regulation wording, this was attached and forward between concerned Post Offices.
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United States Of America, Postage Due Stamp #J3.
Precancel New York String of Pearls
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03:12:20pm
Nice stamp!! I believe the string of pearls also exists with the NY (crossed) pointing in the other direction. I can't remember where I saw this and if one direction is rarer than the other!
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It's in the book I recommended to you on precancel stamps!
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Instead of telling us/me where to find the information why don't you just tell us? I looked it up in my book on Silent Precancels by David Smith and according to him "left or right is normal. Other positions are scarce". Also pointing left is variety 1, right is variety 2. The silent precancel comes in both blue and black. There are several other minor differences between the two varieties. It was used between 1879 and 1887 almost exclusively on postage dues. It was also used on a president stamp in green as a souvenir. This is all I could find, if you know more could you kindly just let us know? If you want to turn this into a contest why not just say so in the first place?
EDIT: Found a bit of information in Gunesch's book on Precancels, which I believe was the one you recommended to me. When this book was published one stamp had been found with the Y in the vertical information and according to this book it was only used on postage dues at several of the New York substations. It was applied with a rubber roller and sometimes the circle seemed to be an oval because of uneven pressure on the roller. Have I missed anything?
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I'm not interested!
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05:08:04pm
Then why post the stamp in the first place?
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@Harvey,
which of the fancy us pe-cancels do you need?
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Can't remember right now and you'd really need a picture of each one since all of the towns/cities had normal precancels as well. I'll get back to you later by message! Thanks!!
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United States of America Series 1898 Revenue stamp with unusal margin inscription
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My guess the inscription stands for $1 Documentary
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Received in mail this week.
I make it out to be United States of America Postage due J3 with I'm guessing a bar cancel.
From the 1870's
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I won a 22 pound box lot on eBay last week and it arrived yesterday. Box lots are always a gamble. For one you never really know what is all contained in them. Fortunately for me I had some idea. In the original listing I saw some material that made it worth my while and it has about $800 worth of face value unused plate blocks and blocks of 4 that can be used as postage if I cant unload it onto someone else. Of course I get to cherry pick the entire lot first. The real task is going to be removing the mildew smell from the whole lot. That isn't a hard task but it is a tedious one to say the least and isn't on my list of favorite things to do. It is equal to watching paint dry in my opinion.
There is a lot of things that came with this lot that I just don't want and will post up on the trading thread of this forum after I get rid of the mildew smell. I don't trade junk. So if I can't save something it is going into the trash. It is that simple.
The items that prompted me to pull the trigger was some newspaper stamps, a couple of revenues, and whole lot of Washington's and Franklin's both used and unused. The bonus find in the lot was a Scott dealers stock book made in Holland and an empty Mystic Heirloom binder that has a slip case. I will put both to use right away.
So stay tuned.
Jeremy
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United States of America Revenue RO165 Private die Match company located at San Francisco,California 12 cents. 1,200 matches
Below Average Condition
Estimated 71 known
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Scott # 702, United States of America, red cross issued of 1931
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@1899
I would be curious to know why the recent acquisition of Scott #702 was notable for you. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement started in 1863 and was inspired by Swiss businessman Henry Dunant after the suffering of thousands of men on both sides of the Battle of Solferino, Italy, in 1859. The United States was nearly twenty years before getting behind the movement, and Scott #702 commemorates the of 50th anniversary of the establishment of the American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881. There are numerous examples of the red cross in the design having been shifted in it's position on the stamp due to the two-pass printing process; some more striking than others.
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I bought a collection recently, this stamp appealed to me!
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The cross is shifted to the left and there are "splotches" the letters of "cents" on the bottom! Can't really tell what the splotches are, maybe seeing the reverse side would help!
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To me, the “splotches” look like the lightly applied wavy lines from a machine duplex canceller. The lines seem quite clear in the left border of stamp.
Bob
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HERE Is a nice recent acquisition!
Senegal Scott 6 Mint No Gum Crease CV $325.00
-Ari
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United States of America, New York Stock Exchange Memo of Stock Sale
A. A. Housman & Co. 17 June 1902
200 shares of Mo P (unknown)
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United States of America. Series 1898 Revenues, R163p pane of 45, showing imprint, plate number, 1/2 arrow and guide line, with Hyphen Hole.
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Close up see arrows 1/2 of arrow & guide line & Hyphen Hole
Left plane orientation
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United States of America, series 1898 revenue stamp R164r on a Fire Insurance Policy (Shawnee Fire Insurance Company)
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Item from collection I bought recently, this item appealed to me, now I want to display it some way.
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United States of America 1898 Revenue Series R162r 1/2 cent pane
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From a collection I bought recently
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United States of America, Kamm's Ale Internal Revenue Tax Paid, bottle label permit U-709
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From a collection I bought recently unknown date these we used, unknown if only required on other drinks?
Does anyone know anything about these and back ground, year(s) they were required?
Comments anyone?
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I'm thirsty now. Check out this link. https://www.tbbm.org/kamm-schellinger
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Come over I'll buy the first one at the local casino, or we could go to the bar at the Chicken Ranch!
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I'm there!!!
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United States of America Series of 1914 revenue stamps used on an instrument
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Scott numbers R220 & R221
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United States of America, Scott number RS73a, below average condition
Slight dry print
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United States of America series 1898 revenue stamps R174r & R175r Agency O. & O. S. S. Co. Honolulu & San Francisco (Occidental & Oriental Steam Ship Co.)
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My guess these were used as tax on tickets for people an or cargo
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United States of America, 1898 Series Revenue Stamp R185, recently received
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Imaged turned 90 degrees to the west
Notice the back ground is almost washed out, might be senitive printing ink. The two images has not been enhanced, this is raw images!
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United States of America, first issue 1862 series Revenue stamp Scott number R181c with "GOLD" part of the cancel.
My guess "GOLD" is part of a bank deposit cancel?
Space filler condition.
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1899,
That is a very interesting and unique cancel. I cant help but notice there seems to be a letters missing in the hand stamp cancel. Shouldn't it say property and not roperty 287 pos?
Jeremy
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Sarge
You're right, I missed that complety, excellent catch!
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Sarge
This was a case of new stamp collector looking but not seeing. I must be getting older to make such a stupid mistake!
You earned your money today!!!
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That's ok we all have our senior moments.
I'm just on the bottom rung of that ladder.
I need to get back to KP
Jeremy
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United States of America Revenue Stamp Series of 1875 Scott Number R152a, trimmed down perfs to appear like R152d
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This image is all perfs around stamp, this well centered could be an example of a trimmed down perfs. before trimming!
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United States of America, Bank check Scott number R164r from the series of 1898 (1898-1902) on The Capital State Bank of of Idaho
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From a collection I bought recently
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United States of America, Scott number R152, Series 1875, revenue stamp from a recent collection I bought recently.
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Unusal cancel
I would rate it as a space filler.
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United States of America Series of 1875, Scott number R152 trimmed down to appear like R152E.
Now this is interesting somebody on 7 Jan 1880 in New Orleans LA trimmed down a R152B, this is not R152E. Who ever did this was smart using it on a bank check!
The left and top margins looks really trimmed. I cannot detect any perf dimples.
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Maybe somebody has a better determination than me sound off?
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United States of America, series 1862 Revenues Scott number R44c pair
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This is a pair, one is cancelled and one is not cancelled, so what if?
If I was to remove the uncancelled stamp and offer it for sale, and if I was dishonest I could call it Unused and price it as a mint stamp without gum! But I'm honest I was describe it as a used stamp!!!
Both images are enhanced!
Image of just the uncancelled stamp
I think this happens alot.
I think all stamps described as unused mint are really used stamps (just what I think)
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Special note, this cancel is rather rare. Lucky for me it was included in the collection I bought recently!
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United States of America, Scott number 492 strip of 10 stamps
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United States of America, Series 1898 Revenus, Scott Number R175r with plate number 8048 $5.00
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Lucky for me this stamp came from a collection I bought recently.
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United States of America, series of 1898 Revenues. Scott Number R175r, $5.00,
Lewisohn Brother, Member of the New York Stock Exchange, Stock Broker, dated 24 March 1899!
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Now in my Collection - Great Britain, Queen Victoria Jubilee, Complete set MNH - 1887-92. Scott #111-122 and SG197-210
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Not new but in hiding for many years
Schuylers Lake with LOV monogram cancel - rated scarce in cole's
Oriskany Falls Horseshoe as receiver
Middlesex Vermont small grid ?
Montepelier Vermont fancy
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Wine Stamp Series 1914, cancelled Nov 1914 RE3 (I have not confirmed this yet dealer says RE3).
Common stamp yes, uncommon with Nov 1914 date cancel!
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1899,
I'm gonna ask a crazy question here but why would a Nov. 1914 cancel be rare on a "Series 1914" revenue stamp?
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Good question.
In an effort to find factual information I've researched the Treasury Dept., have not found the annoucent for the series 1914 information. I'm still researching the actual date for wine stamps. I have (not confirmed yet) for wine stamps when in 1914 Nov. were required!
Point of fact I did not say it is rare, I said uncommon!
Now I have a question for you. Do you know the actual date (Day, Month, Year), that wine stamps were requied?
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"Now I have a question for you. Do you know the actual date (Day, Month, Year), that wine stamps were requied?"
No, but from the sound of your original post, you sounded like did know and that this stamp represented some type of outlier? To me, at first blush, looks like a EXTREMELY common stamp (in every way). Dude, I'm not trying to "call you out" or flame you.... You threw it out there that this was a special stamp. I'm just saying that I'm not seeing it.
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Let me try again.
This stamp without a cancel is very common!
This stamp with a Nov. 1914 date is uncommon (not RARE). Because I found with Nov. 1914, I've been searching for over 20 years! There should be thousands of these dated 1914, but this is the first in 20 years I've found.
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"...but this is the first in 20 years I've found."
Now I get it! Thank you. I learned something... and Congrats on finding something you've been lookin for.
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Another wine stamp, this is the one I bid on, when received the deal included the RE3 (not confirmed yet), as a gift I guess.
Anyway dealer claims it is RE55. I'll be confirming this later, the cancel is why I bid on it.
Lucy me!
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This folded letter arrived today. I bought it for the "V" cancel. Included with the letter was information about the recipient, C.J. Folger and a transcription of the letter. It's nice when te previous owner does the research, makes it easier for me.
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I have been looking for the Blackjack cover and enclosure for awhile - finally found it and thought the illustrated steam engine cover nest ti it might be of interest as well. Yes, it's scissors cut but it is an 85B "Z" grille so it retains some value, especially with the enclosure.
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This arrived today in the mail. It has a "Bottle Stopper" cancel, size #3 in the center, from Clinton, MA.
The message on the card refers to fire damage to some property.
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Henry,
the scissors cut OUTSIDE the perfs, leaving the stamp fully intact. Wouldn't that then retain the full value of the stamp? Just curious.
David
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David,
Being on cover and including the letterhead I think you are correct. Pricing varies all over the place on these things anyway. And Blackjacks are noted for lousy centering.
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Now in my Collection - Great Britain, this is the last Issue from the Queen Victoria, Complete set of two, MNH - 1887-92. Scott #125-126 and SG213-214.
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Perkins & Jackson, New York.
Still working on research and etc.
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my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1880 Issue, One Shilling - MLH, rich color. Scott #87 - SG163, Plate 13 - (TK).
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Now in my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1840 Issue, Penny Black - rich color. Used with 4 excellent margins, Red Maltese Cross, with the listed " Left side line recut and upper left corner has sideline recut and thickened " varieties Also "Ray Flaws 10 / 7 NW Square " variety. Scott #1 - SG2, Plate 1b, (FH).
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@rtvstamps reference your posting of: 11 Feb 2025
01:44:46pm
Under the "K" bottom right orientation, is the mark ".", some kind of stray mark, or part of the design?
Would you agree or disagree that this was a dry print? See the letters on "ONE SHILLING"
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Yes, it is a dry print with the dot under the "K", but it seems that S. Gibbons does not care, as in the Penny Blacks, where he does point out those that have a dot and certain "different" attributes.
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Now in my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1867 Issue, MLH, Four Pence Gray Brown, (MF), Plate 17 - Wmk. 30, Sc.84 - SG160
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Now in my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1840 Issue, Penny Black - (Greyish Black). Used with 4 excellent margins, Red Maltese Cross. Scott #1 - SG3, Plate 6, (NL), State 1. Some dots on check letters and worn plate.
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Premium stamp for sure. Look at those margins. Wow!
Beautiful stamp Rodolfo.
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Thanks so much for your comments Ernie. That's right, when a Penny Black has wide margins, they look more spectacular. Above this post I posted another of my recent Penny Black acquisitions and the margins are even larger, beautiful too!
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Rodolfo,
Yes! I must have missed it. That F-H is a freak of nature. Do you mount these together somehow?
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Hi Ernie,
Thanks for your kind comments!. Thanks for your comments. I have them on Hagner stock sheets.
I was looking for a Lighthouse album that included the English stamp plates, but I'm not convinced. I finally found my old work from 2005, where I made my own album, and I'll mount them there. I'm in the process of adding the supports to start the migration.
I still need to add more elements to this sheet; the information small paper are missing, and from there, my database.
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Rodolfo,
What a wonderful collection of Penny Blacks. Love the eye for detail and quality; truly special. I have always considered myself a U.S. collector but I do have a soft spot in my heart for early Great Britain. Check out my collection of early British stamps; I think the Penny Black is the best. Here's the kicker... they are all E-J my initials!
Ernie
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13 Mar 2025
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What an incredible accomplishment, it must have been very hard to do. I'd love to try to do the same but unfortunately my initials are JW!
By the way, I don't think any stamp collection is complete without a Penny Black. I picked up one several years ago and it is one of my favourite pieces even though GB is not one of the countries I collect!
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I love my Penny Black, especially with its Red Maltese Cross Cancel!
It was a gift from one of my stamp collecting friends, when I began collecting.
I admire it every day!
It would be impossible for me to have one with my initials. A d B!
I love early great Britain, and am working on a larger British collection as well.
-Ari
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"ernie wrote: Rodolfo,
What a wonderful collection of Penny Blacks."
Thanks for your comments, what nice stamps you have! . Yes, for me the engravings on the stamps of Great Britain are beautiful!.
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17 Mar 2025
06:57:55pm
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Just bought this nice pair of red precancels on black 2 cent Hardings. Nice stamps, if anyone collects Virginia precancels I really don't need both, no charge if you want one of them. I'm pretty sure they're legit since Gunesch mentions this particular red precancel in his section on coloured precancels! I'll probably keep the right-side-up one since it's the better strike.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/276934461009
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Here are the most recent ones to that will be added to my collection and are the best ones pulled from the very large lot I got on eBay. I finally got a really nice bright sunny day to identify colors and grills. I'm still pinching myself because in the lot is an 85c. Thats right a Z grill! I've checked it 3 times and it is 11mm x 14mm with 13 by 17 points facing down. It was in a glassine by itself with a note from the past owner to have it sent in to get expertised. Like most grilled stamps it has in pencil on the back of the stamp what someone from years gone by a catalog # as to what they thought it was/is. That is what I always double check with my precision U.S. specialty multi-gauge and specialized color gauge specific to those stamps.
Those tools are by far and large some of the smartest philatelic purchases I have ever made. That is enough rambling. Here are the pictures and there will be more in later posts.
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There will be still more pictures to follow.
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Great stuff Sarge, ending up with an 85C is fantastic - well done!!!! I'm an old fashioned album collector and it doesn't even show 85C. To finish my page I need 84, 85E, 86 and 101. All expensive and all unlikely, but here's hoping! Again, great find!!!
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Thank you Harvey. It is a pleasant find for sure. Here are 6 more pictures of some unused material that came with the lot. There is a lot more to the lot way too much to take pictures of.
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Congrats on your eBay purchase. Looks like you will have many fun hours ahead!
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Wow!
Congrats Sarge!
Which gauge do you use?
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A few minutes ago I received a package with more than 2,800 stamps and 280 mini-sheets and souvenir sheets, all MNH and complete sets!
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Ari I used the gauge in the photo with the Scott color guide. It is the precision multi gauge.
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Thanks Jeremy!
I guess I missed that.
I think I should go get one soon.
A Z grill!
Wow!
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Arrived for my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1887-92 Issues, MLH, Catalogue Scott No.113a 2p Green & Vermilion and No. 113 Green & Car Rose from British Catalogue SG199 2d Green & Scarlet, SG200 Grey, Green & Carmine. The stamp 113a/SG199 is very scarce.
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R196 Wmk 190 One Cent Series 1914 cancel dated Dec 12, 1914, almost SON, perf. 10x10x10x10.
Shop worn condition.
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I just got these beauties in the mail. Fly speckers can you find the oddities with the cat# 701 and the 702's also notice the color shade varieties in 4 of the rotary press printings.
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Working on my US today!
Here is a stamp I'm adding!
A nice Design Shift!
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Ari,
Nice find.
You have a very nice freak there very worthy of discussion. Have you figured out what design type it is yet? I really like the vignette shift. It also looks to have a bit of double impression too.
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That shows the shift very nicely, a further scan is not needed!!
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I agree this photo shows the design shift nicely.
I do not see the reported double impression. Could arrows show the double impression areas be added?
A scan would show this stamp much better, just a suggestion!
Reverse image would be nice to see?
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I bought up 5 different lots in the past couple of days. One of the lots having a Blackjack #73 vertical half bisect used for the 3 cent rate off of the cover unfortunately but it's still a nice find and I cant wait to post a picture of it when it arrives here. The seller doesn't know what it is. His loss my gain. That is the crown jewel of all of the lots I bought and there are plenty of other really nice stamps in all of the lots. So stay tuned.
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Its so fun to see all this different stuff. Thanks for sharing all!
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Now in my Collection - Mexico 3c. Brown, Imperial Eagle of Maximilian I Emperor of Mexico - 36-1865, issued in February 23, 1865, with 4 great marrgins and fresh color with original gum, MLH - Scott No.18
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Good morning (my time)
It's not important, just interested, upper right corner there appears to be a mark, is this just a stray mark or something else?
Issued in February 23, 2865?
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Nothing major, just a mark outside the margin that doesn't affect the stamp. The date has been corrected, thanks.
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In the photo is 3 of the 5 lots that arrived here yesterday evening. I spent the morning identifying and successfully completed the task with 100% success. Not a lot of money was spent here but there is tremendous value. At the expense of my willingness to do what some others refuse to do which is resource the information for my benefit and their loss.
Starting at the top left just like reading a book and in the list below by Scott Catalog #:
Cat#
10 with a fancy blue cancel.
26
36 with a fancy paid cancel
65
77
78 Gray Lilac changeling with a fancy blue town cancel. It almost looked like it was steel blue at a glance but after very close inspection it is a changeling.
71
113
115
116 with a double split grill and fancy red cancel.
119
151
163 with a fancy blue cancel
190
210
213
The complete set of 219 - 229 to include 219d and 220a with the cap on the left numeral 2. It has taken all 3 lots that I got to complete the set. Truth told the set is still lacking the 220b caps on both numeral 2's. But I'll get one in do time. Take a close look at the #229. There is an arrow at the top right in the margin to let the clerk know where to cut and separate the sheets.
326
E-5 it is watermarked.
R44c
R13c
R18c
RB2a
RB65
RS249b
RS75a
RS35 that measures 24mm x 30mm Imperforate silk paper. It's too bad it isn't the larger design.
Last but not least is the cigarette tax stamp from the 1883 series TA 21c.
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That's a great lot Sarge,
There are some beautiful stamps there as well as some serious catalog value. I'm jealous!
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Thank you Ernie,
The last 2 lots that I ordered will be here tonight and I'll post up some pictures of them tomorrow. One of those lots I cant remember which one right now has the #73 vertical bisect for the 3 cent rate off of the cover and I cant wait to get my tongs on it for closer inspection. I have always heard of bisect cut stamps and even seen pictures in magazines and catalogs. I'll have to post pictures of that one by itself along with some of the others individually from the other lots.
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@Sarge
ref your post dated 08 Apr 2025 01:04:34pm
This is a lot that is fun to id. Measure the perfs with the correct perf guage, watermarking them my method, etc., and more etc. I know of at least one sor member who never checks the watermarks stamps, even says he never checks the back of his stamps.
When I start id. a lot like this I always start looking at the back first!
Do you have a scanner? I ask as I'd like to see (no trouble for you I hope) the scan front and back of 226?
Again this is a fun lot.
Hope your collecting future will be fun!
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1899,
It is no problem to a scan of both sides of the 226. I'll have to do it in a while. I have to go pick my son up from school. By the way I always check for watermarks because it can mean the difference between a stamp that is worth a .25 cents or several hundred or even thousands of dollars.
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Here is the last lot. I must be deranged to buy so many lots and give myself a bunch of duplication aka trading/selling material. But it's worth it when I find treasures like this. #73 vertical bisect for the 3 cent rate.
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08 Apr 2025
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Bisects really should be tied to a cover or a piece of one to be really looked on as a bisect. I have a bisect of a Nova Scotia stamp that's tied to a piece but I'm still suspicious. I still think yours is a great find but if you ever try to sell it as a bisect you might have a problem - just sayin'!!
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"Bisects really should be tied to a cover or a piece of one to be really looked on as a bisect."
I didn't want to say it but.... yeah, unless it's tied to a cover with a cancel isn't it just a stamp that's cut in half?
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I hear you guys. I think it's a shame that it isn't tied to a cover but it is still a nice conversation piece and more importantly it is mine now.
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I was watching a stamp "thing" somewhere, can't remember where, where a "faker" faked a bisect tied to a cover and there was (supposedly) no way to tell. It's scary what these people can do!!
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Lots of faking has been going on for a very long time - ink is easily removed, whether fountain pen or ball point. My dad made extra money when he attended Norwich U back in the early 40's by altering dates on ID's. He said the main problem was getting the ink color correct, purple being the hardest color to match. Not much new under the sun.
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Your possible bisect #73, is it real or not?
My take on this question:
I don't know if it is a real bisect or not, but I know there is a chance it could be real!
I like your statement "more importantly it is mine now."
Good luck with chasing down if it is or is not real.
If it is real or not I think you have a stamp that is outstanding interest.
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09 Apr 2025
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"If it is real or not I think you have a stamp that is outstanding interest"
I agree with 1899 on that point, it's a great looking stamp that I would like to have in my collection. I know you're not interested in value but it could not be valued as a bisect since there is no way to be sure. But as an interesting item, that it definitely is!! Great find!
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You all are correct. I don't care about the value of the stamp for a monetary gain. It is far more valuable for a research project to get answers to the questions posed already and those that will be posed in the future. Believe me I have a ton of them that will raise a lot of eyebrows I'm sure especially about this particular stamp. For the sake of not hijacking this thread I'll post the discussion of my stamp in the appropriate sub-forum.
So let's see what others have acquired and keep this thread going.
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A good lot Sarge! Something I'd love to search through.
My pictorial freak, is a #119.
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@Sarge
If you are interested in double transfers on the Columbian stamps 230-245 (there are tons of double transfers and other plate varieties to look for!)
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1899,
Yes I am interested in learning about double transfers and how to spot them.
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Here is some information from a friend of mine wrote.
Next page
In the morning I try to load some of varieties I've duscovered over the last 45 years.
I'm a retired U. S. Air Force Master Sergeant and spent a long time in Europe which is a good place to fund U.S. stamps and varieties.
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U.S. # 71 used.
I'm excited to add this one to my collection. Intense color. Can I call this VF? right side looks a little close for VF but with these early ones who knows.
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Since March 24, 2025, in my collection: Mexico, Imperial Eagle of Maximilian I, ½ royal lilac (now scarce or rare). Wet printing. With name "MORELIA" District, 84-1865 (District number 84, year 1865). Used with CDS - "FRANCO - ADMON. PRAL. DE CORREOS DE MORELIA". 1000 copies were overprinted with this issue on May 18, 1865, and very few have been seen. Scott no. 20d.
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Ernie,
That 30c IS A BEAUTY!!
One, I'd love in my set.
When my budget expands...
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Thanks Ari, really wasn't THAT much.. I've got # 70 on the way also. Stay tuned!
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1899,
I'm sorry that I didn't respond sooner. I have been as busy as a one legged man in a butt kicking contest. You know the types of things: daddy day care and hobo the handyman etc...
Thank you for asking me to take a photo of the 226 and posting it here. You have a great eye for the EFO's and I think that you may have discovered another plate variety. If I am not mistaken this will be a cracked plate variety. What do you think?
That didn't harm me at all now did it?
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@Sarge
I really cannot tell for sure, now it looks like a crease to me, sorry I just can't tell for sure.
I've been busy, my daughter wants me to make planters.
I'm working on a bookcase for my bedroom.
I think for me the image of the reverse made the difference for me and makes me think it's a crease, thank you!
Sorry I don't think its a cracked plate, you have the best sets of eyes as you have this stamp in person.
You sound like your are working harder then the kitchen police in the mess.
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KP would be much less challenging. Scrubbing pots, pans, peeling potatoes and taking out the trash would be a cake walk. Been there done that. I wouldn't trade what I have and where I'm at in life for the world.
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1899,
I believe that you are right in saying that it is a fold in the paper. I also believe that it could very well be a cracked plate too. Where the fold starts at the top of the frame line all the way to the perforations can be seen with naked eye and the back of the stamp clearly shows evidence of this too.
Here is what I am looking at though. In the lines of the design within the circled part of the stamp starting at the frame shows where ink has filled in the crack joining all of the lines together. There is a lot more to the crack but this is the spot that I can see with the naked eye and I do where glasses too.
Thank you again for asking me to post a picture of the front and back of the stamp. If I hadn't this one would've got passed by without your request to do so.
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You make a good point, I'll have to think about this one, you have a good eye!
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Thank you for the kind comment 1899.
Now let's see what others have. I've highjacked this thread long enough.
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16 Apr 2025
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Two relatively new stamps on this page. The 78a at the end of the last row and the 70d in the lower left corner. I consider the page to be complete since the crossed out stamps are no longer considered to be regular issues, most are trial colours. Again I apologize for the glare, my photo person had a bad day!!
I'm pretty sure all these stamps are properly ID'ed but this early US stuff can be a major pain!!
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I noticed that on that page I have two of the cog cancels, one type 1 and one type 3. I have no idea where I got that information from. I think it was a post here but I can't remember! Can anyone remember where the post was?
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I picked this up this week. It is an invitation to The Schenectady Stamp Club Tenth Annual Christmas Dinner, 1942, on a blank V-Mail letter. It has the menu and program are printed on the inside and the club members signed it. Some thought was put into this.
Here is a close up of the stamp. It appears that the real postage stamp was soaked off and a composite of an Italian, German & Japanese placed in its place.
This is a V-Mail blank for comparison.
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The V-Mail letter is a beauty.
Thanks for showing it to us.
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So many great items that many of you have been fortunate to add to your collecting interests!
To change it up a bit, I acquired not a stamp or cover, but a couple packs of supplies from our local Hobby Lobby;
I was looking for something else there - not stamp related - when I happened to see these in the discount section of the back wall;
At this deep a price cut, how could I not get them?? I only wish there were more than two packs!
I use black mounts for a few of my albums, including US revenue, mint US, US possessions and a couple other albums.
Would love to see Hobby Lobby do this again! Unfortunately, it was probably a onetime thing to get rid of and stop carrying them.
Oh, well - can't beat a 32 cent price tag, anyway!
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Good score Randy! I had no idea Hobby Lobby carried mounts.
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Having fun handling these two today. The # 70 (a variety), looks good next to the # 71 I snagged a few weeks ago. Kinda feels like this is how a classic U.S. stamp collection comes together. Lemme know if you wanna see the backsides.
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@Vinman: You said (about that V-Mail club invitation), " Some thought was put into this."
Thought? What thoughts? About supporting the Axis? It is an odd item, posted just over a year after Pearl Harbour! Looks to me like everyone signing it was a Nazi. Am I missing something?
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I took it as dark humor with the signatures being of club members heading off to war to fight adolph, benito and hiro.
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Bob, WOW! How you came to the conclusion that this was in any way supporting the Axis is a mystery to me. It is just satire "not dark humor" during WWll, nothing more. I have many covers from that era that show the same kind of satire.
The thought that went into this starts with the special stamp issued by the Axis. It is not a real stamp, just a fake made up from a German, Italian and Japanese stamps, just satire.
The return address is a shot at the Axis again, nothing nefarious. More thought to come up with that address.
More thought went into the letter to MR. A.D., “Our understanding that a large group of you will be coming our way, so “we’ll be seeing you” "(we fear)” signed by Adoph, Beneet, and Hiroheet, more fun at their expense and their names.
There is even an area saluting club members serving in The Armed Services with a flag decal, very American & patriotic.
I am at a loss to where you came up with the club members being Nazis.
You asked “Am I missing something? Yes, a sense of humor.
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I found this in a collection. This was one owner's single country album two chipboard pieces for front and back cover with some Begium Scott pages. They also used string but also staples for binding.
I do not use Scott worldwide album pages but noticed that Scott pages prior to them adding catalog numbers tended to be in chronological order so "scott sets" were split into years rather than Scott order.
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This was in an accumulation. It was loaded with stock transfer forms.
I do not collect them but seems interesting,
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I found this in my dad's collection. He had marked it as a telegraph but it is not. The overprint is missing "HAB". Scott warns about counterfeit overprints but these do not seem to have much value.
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My daughter and my son in law just visited Rome. They were really excited to just-so-happen-to be-there during the Conclave. She was eager to tell me about everything she was able to see.
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That was the trip of a lifetime. I'm envious.
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I recently purchased this cover. It is an Adversity Cover. It was used twice to save paper. It was first sent from Cleveland, NY with the 3 cents stamp and reused by turning the cover inside out and resending from Cleveland, NY. I am unable to decipher the town name from where it was sent.
I chose to do the repairs on the side with Cleveland postmark to show the side with the stamp. A previous owner plated the stamp as 85L2, 3 recuts in upper left diamond.
Before
After
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Hosea Lee lived in Oriskany, Oneida County, NY
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A few Olympic stamps that I added yesterday while at a local stamp bourse here in Texas. I am currently working on building a collection of Olympic stamps issued by host countries. So the France (SC#200) completes a four stamp set from the 1924 Paris Olympics. The Japanese souvenir sheet is from the 1964 Toyoko Summer Olympics, along with three other stamps commemorating individual sports of those Games. Then the Norway set of three from the 1952 Winter Games held in Oslo.
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@Vinman,
You wrote, “WOW! How you came to the conclusion that this was in any way supporting the Axis is a mystery to me. It is just satire "not dark humor…"
Mea culpa! My apologies! Obviously, I rushed to a conclusion without evidence. Note to self: Read first, think, put fingers on keyboard, type, read what you write, and then hit ‘send’. Or, better still, hit delete!”
You accused me of not having a sense of humour. Ouch! I actually do enjoy a sense of humour. Here’s a joke to prove it:
A man, a stranger, is walking along a country road from one small town to another. He stops to ask a farmer in a field how long it would take him to reach the next town. The farmer listens, but doesn’t say anything.
The man, dumfounded at the farmer’s rudeness, shakes his head in disbelief and continues walking. Moments later, the farmer shouts after him: “Two hours!”
The man turns around and says, “Why didn’t you tell me when I asked?”
The farmer says, “I had to see how fast you walked!”
See? Sense of humour! I do have to say, though, that I cannot find any humour in war, except perhaps for rueful laughter at the bungling politicians and generals and admirals who cause it. One of the great problems in our troubled world is that we try to dehumanize our enemies. It may give the one's "poking fun" at their enemies to provide some sense of purpose and solidarity with their friends, but it can only anger one's enemies. In Vietnam — even before we went to Vietnam — we were assured that the Viet Cong were small, physically weak, stupid, and had poor eyesight, just as the Japanese were supposed to have been in the Second World War. In other words just seemed natural. I wish they had been all of those things; if they had been, my life following my "duty" in Vietnam would have been a lot happier and less physically painful and debilitating, and a lot more American soldiers might have survived to go home to their friends and families.
Bob
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Well put Bob!
I try to look before I leap.
We should stay on our recent acquisitions!
Here is one of mine!
-Ari
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Received recently (before the postal strike/slowdown/whatever), Papua New Guinea MNH C2-4:
I don't generally care for overprinted stamps, but I am a sucker for well-designed airmail overprints featuring clear, sharp images of aircraft, like these.
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@Bob
Thanks for the joke, you do have a sense of humor.
I think if you were able to look at the V-Mail in your hands and not just a computer screen it might have made more sense, and the intention would have been clearer.
True, war is not a laughing matter. We have been poking fun at it since at least the Civil War here in the States.
I do collect “Patriotic Covers” from WW2, some I post here but there are others I just keep in my collection, should I say they are not “politically correct or appropriate” for this site.
I didn’t realize that other countries also made Patriotic covers and poked fun at their enemies. What a surprise when I saw some WW2 covers and cards from Germany and Italy.
I’ll start another recent acquisitions thread later today and show the batch of V-Mail I picked up from Jim Forte a few months ago.
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08:34:17pm
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Just picked this up!! Very interesting vending machine perforations. It is supposedly mint with original gum but I can't show the stamps back side until I get the stamp!! I have quite a few Shermacks, I think this one is Brinkerhoff Company line pair of Scott #408!!! I'd really like to get more of these vending machine stamps, maybe one of each type, but some types are very pricey!
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In one old album I bought in last January from Central America I found this stamp from Nicaragua, Coat Of Arms, 2c on 10c Red, October 1911 Issue - (Timbre Fiscal - Vale 10 ctvs." used with blue postmark with Surcharge Inverted, (CORREOS 02 Centavos). Scott No. 287a.
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Future Delivery RC21 U. S. A. Revenue Stamp.
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From my Collection: Maximilian Empire, Imperial Eagle, 2 reales Yellow. Second Period, 141-1864 - District "MORELIA" (141) used in Sub-District No. 8 "PURUANDIRO" with Schatzkés Postmark No. 978 "FRANCO EN PURUANDIRO" with 20 points of rarity!. Only 500 stamps were printed with these numbers and many were sent to many Sub-Offices, from this Sub-8 only has seen till 7 stamps!, now is considered a scarce stamp!
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Scott Cat. Revenue Rl1 Certificate of payments of tonnage duty. U. S. Customs House Port of New York.
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Rl1 on instrument rare usage
Close up of Rl1
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From my Collection: Great Britain, Queen Victoria, 1878 Issue, VFU, One Pound, Plate 1, (HA), Brown Lilac - Wmk. 26, Sc.75 / SG129, Shifted left, used with CDS "LONDON" - March 9, 1880.
GREAT BRITAIN, NUMBERS ISSUED 1840 to 1910 Catalogue
Compiled by RIKKI C. HYDE
£1 BROWN-LILAC
Watermark Maltese Cross – Perforation 15½ × 15 – Issued in sheets
of 80
Total number issued 242,000 (3,025 sheets)
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Bill of lading Boston Feb 1802.
For 30 boxes of cards.
There is 2 embossed Revenue impressions, but I'm unable to make a position identification for either one yet!
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From my Collection: Barbados, The Britannia Issue, 1p Blue, Mint VLH, 1872 Issue - Wmk. 5, (small Star) - Clean-Cut Perf. 14½.
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08 Jun 2025
02:46:42pm
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Just picked this up on E-Bay https://www.ebay.ca/itm/135906410952 I paid more than I really wanted to but it's a really nice precancel for my unusual precancel collection! It looks like an arrow going toward a bird. Does anyone know if this is some kind of state or town symbol? Can't find anything about it on Google.
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Dept. of the Treasury, Applicaton to make and register a firearm
I make this out to be RY11
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From my collection: Nicaragua, Revenue Stamps Surcharged: Green "5 Pesos CORREOS 1907 - OFICIAL 5 Pesos" on 5c. Brown. Scott No.O186. Blue "70 cents. CORREOS 1908 - OFICIAL 70 CENTS" on 2c. Scott No. O201 Orange. and "2 pesos CORREOS 1908 - OFICIAL 2 PESOS" on 2c. Orange. Scott No.O209. I love this type of engravings with beautiful details!.
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United States of America
Revenue Stamp
R221 inscribed "Series 1914" (see ribbons by value) $10, date usage 1934, 20 years after issue date.
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08 Jun 2025
08:59:55pm
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Thanks Doug, I agree, really nice stamp!! I paid a bit more than I planned but it seems that the really interesting precancels go for more! I have a list of all the towns with unusual precancels and saved searches on E-Bay for all of them. Slowly, but surely, I'm getting there!! I'm only after one of each so, except for the couple or really pricey ones, I should eventually finish!
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Joint regulations governing the treatment of dutiable and supposed dutiable articles received in the mail from foreign countries. Feb 1907
Post Office Seal with the regulation wording, this was attached and forward between concerned Post Offices.
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United States Of America, Postage Due Stamp #J3.
Precancel New York String of Pearls
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09 Jun 2025
03:12:20pm
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Nice stamp!! I believe the string of pearls also exists with the NY (crossed) pointing in the other direction. I can't remember where I saw this and if one direction is rarer than the other!
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It's in the book I recommended to you on precancel stamps!
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09 Jun 2025
04:38:15pm
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Instead of telling us/me where to find the information why don't you just tell us? I looked it up in my book on Silent Precancels by David Smith and according to him "left or right is normal. Other positions are scarce". Also pointing left is variety 1, right is variety 2. The silent precancel comes in both blue and black. There are several other minor differences between the two varieties. It was used between 1879 and 1887 almost exclusively on postage dues. It was also used on a president stamp in green as a souvenir. This is all I could find, if you know more could you kindly just let us know? If you want to turn this into a contest why not just say so in the first place?
EDIT: Found a bit of information in Gunesch's book on Precancels, which I believe was the one you recommended to me. When this book was published one stamp had been found with the Y in the vertical information and according to this book it was only used on postage dues at several of the New York substations. It was applied with a rubber roller and sometimes the circle seemed to be an oval because of uneven pressure on the roller. Have I missed anything?
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09 Jun 2025
05:08:04pm
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Then why post the stamp in the first place?
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@Harvey,
which of the fancy us pe-cancels do you need?
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09 Jun 2025
06:33:31pm
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Can't remember right now and you'd really need a picture of each one since all of the towns/cities had normal precancels as well. I'll get back to you later by message! Thanks!!
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United States of America Series 1898 Revenue stamp with unusal margin inscription
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My guess the inscription stands for $1 Documentary
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Received in mail this week.
I make it out to be United States of America Postage due J3 with I'm guessing a bar cancel.
From the 1870's
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I won a 22 pound box lot on eBay last week and it arrived yesterday. Box lots are always a gamble. For one you never really know what is all contained in them. Fortunately for me I had some idea. In the original listing I saw some material that made it worth my while and it has about $800 worth of face value unused plate blocks and blocks of 4 that can be used as postage if I cant unload it onto someone else. Of course I get to cherry pick the entire lot first. The real task is going to be removing the mildew smell from the whole lot. That isn't a hard task but it is a tedious one to say the least and isn't on my list of favorite things to do. It is equal to watching paint dry in my opinion.
There is a lot of things that came with this lot that I just don't want and will post up on the trading thread of this forum after I get rid of the mildew smell. I don't trade junk. So if I can't save something it is going into the trash. It is that simple.
The items that prompted me to pull the trigger was some newspaper stamps, a couple of revenues, and whole lot of Washington's and Franklin's both used and unused. The bonus find in the lot was a Scott dealers stock book made in Holland and an empty Mystic Heirloom binder that has a slip case. I will put both to use right away.
So stay tuned.
Jeremy
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United States of America Revenue RO165 Private die Match company located at San Francisco,California 12 cents. 1,200 matches
Below Average Condition
Estimated 71 known
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Scott # 702, United States of America, red cross issued of 1931
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@1899
I would be curious to know why the recent acquisition of Scott #702 was notable for you. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement started in 1863 and was inspired by Swiss businessman Henry Dunant after the suffering of thousands of men on both sides of the Battle of Solferino, Italy, in 1859. The United States was nearly twenty years before getting behind the movement, and Scott #702 commemorates the of 50th anniversary of the establishment of the American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881. There are numerous examples of the red cross in the design having been shifted in it's position on the stamp due to the two-pass printing process; some more striking than others.
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I bought a collection recently, this stamp appealed to me!
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11 Jun 2025
02:30:38pm
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The cross is shifted to the left and there are "splotches" the letters of "cents" on the bottom! Can't really tell what the splotches are, maybe seeing the reverse side would help!
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To me, the “splotches” look like the lightly applied wavy lines from a machine duplex canceller. The lines seem quite clear in the left border of stamp.
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HERE Is a nice recent acquisition!
Senegal Scott 6 Mint No Gum Crease CV $325.00
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United States of America, New York Stock Exchange Memo of Stock Sale
A. A. Housman & Co. 17 June 1902
200 shares of Mo P (unknown)
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United States of America. Series 1898 Revenues, R163p pane of 45, showing imprint, plate number, 1/2 arrow and guide line, with Hyphen Hole.
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Close up see arrows "Imprint" & "plate number"
Close up see arrows 1/2 of arrow & guide line & Hyphen Hole
Left plane orientation
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United States of America, series 1898 revenue stamp R164r on a Fire Insurance Policy (Shawnee Fire Insurance Company)
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Item from collection I bought recently, this item appealed to me, now I want to display it some way.
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United States of America 1898 Revenue Series R162r 1/2 cent pane
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From a collection I bought recently
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United States of America, Kamm's Ale Internal Revenue Tax Paid, bottle label permit U-709
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From a collection I bought recently unknown date these we used, unknown if only required on other drinks?
Does anyone know anything about these and back ground, year(s) they were required?
Comments anyone?
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I'm thirsty now. Check out this link. https://www.tbbm.org/kamm-schellinger
Jeremy
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Come over I'll buy the first one at the local casino, or we could go to the bar at the Chicken Ranch!
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United States of America Series of 1914 revenue stamps used on an instrument
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Scott numbers R220 & R221
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United States of America, Scott number RS73a, below average condition
Slight dry print
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United States of America series 1898 revenue stamps R174r & R175r Agency O. & O. S. S. Co. Honolulu & San Francisco (Occidental & Oriental Steam Ship Co.)
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My guess these were used as tax on tickets for people an or cargo
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United States of America, 1898 Series Revenue Stamp R185, recently received
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Imaged turned 90 degrees to the west
Notice the back ground is almost washed out, might be senitive printing ink. The two images has not been enhanced, this is raw images!
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United States of America, first issue 1862 series Revenue stamp Scott number R181c with "GOLD" part of the cancel.
My guess "GOLD" is part of a bank deposit cancel?
Space filler condition.
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1899,
That is a very interesting and unique cancel. I cant help but notice there seems to be a letters missing in the hand stamp cancel. Shouldn't it say property and not roperty 287 pos?
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Sarge
You're right, I missed that complety, excellent catch!
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Sarge
This was a case of new stamp collector looking but not seeing. I must be getting older to make such a stupid mistake!
You earned your money today!!!
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That's ok we all have our senior moments. I'm just on the bottom rung of that ladder.
I need to get back to KP
Jeremy
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United States of America Revenue Stamp Series of 1875 Scott Number R152a, trimmed down perfs to appear like R152d
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This image is all perfs around stamp, this well centered could be an example of a trimmed down perfs. before trimming!
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United States of America, Bank check Scott number R164r from the series of 1898 (1898-1902) on The Capital State Bank of of Idaho
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From a collection I bought recently
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United States of America, Scott number R152, Series 1875, revenue stamp from a recent collection I bought recently.
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Unusal cancel
I would rate it as a space filler.
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United States of America Series of 1875, Scott number R152 trimmed down to appear like R152E.
Now this is interesting somebody on 7 Jan 1880 in New Orleans LA trimmed down a R152B, this is not R152E. Who ever did this was smart using it on a bank check!
The left and top margins looks really trimmed. I cannot detect any perf dimples.
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Maybe somebody has a better determination than me sound off?
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United States of America, series 1862 Revenues Scott number R44c pair
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This is a pair, one is cancelled and one is not cancelled, so what if?
If I was to remove the uncancelled stamp and offer it for sale, and if I was dishonest I could call it Unused and price it as a mint stamp without gum! But I'm honest I was describe it as a used stamp!!!
Both images are enhanced!
Image of just the uncancelled stamp
I think this happens alot.
I think all stamps described as unused mint are really used stamps (just what I think)
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Special note, this cancel is rather rare. Lucky for me it was included in the collection I bought recently!
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United States of America, Scott number 492 strip of 10 stamps
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From a collection I bought recently
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United States of America, Series 1898 Revenus, Scott Number R175r with plate number 8048 $5.00
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Lucky for me this stamp came from a collection I bought recently.
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United States of America, series of 1898 Revenues. Scott Number R175r, $5.00,
Lewisohn Brother, Member of the New York Stock Exchange, Stock Broker, dated 24 March 1899!
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