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US 1923 Head Of Freedom 5$

 
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Is there any difference between these stamps.
thank you
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They all look like the same color variety to me.

Also, it looks like the top left two pairs were originally attached as a block of 4, and the bottom two strips were originally attached as a strip of 5.

Nice. Are these yours?
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That's a lot of postage in that strip of three. Would be about $210- in today's dollars! (US gov't CPI)

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It is definitely not an insignificant amount for postage.

I would venture to guess that the larger original multiple might have been used to pay some fee, rather than actually physically affixed to a package?
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There is something going on with this amount of postage. Others care to weigh in?

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I also thought that $20.00 was a lot of money for
postage back in the 1920's. I hope to learn more from
this thread, as to what else it could have been used for.



edit, I just looked at eBay and saw several blocks of four.
This is a used block of sixteen!

edit, I could not get the link to work.

Had trouble with the link. Here is the image.

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One of the uses for such high values was because banks used to send money packages by mail (and they actually got where they were going). Such packages were usually sent registered and insured, and the insurance got expensive.
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Good info, revcollector. That makes sense -- most of the stamps went to cover the insurance fee.
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The above examples and many that I viewed on eBay ,
have the same double oval cancel. That is a large cancel.
Could that connect them. Is that cancel a normal, at the
counter cancel.

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Most of these paid registration fees rather than insurance fees, which had very low limits in the era of these stamps. And many come with perfins of financial institutions.
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Wow, what was the registration fee rate back then?!? Or were these used as bulk fee payment and not affixed to the package?
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