2 Cent Parcel Post??

Is this stamp carmine or lake if lake thats great, can you please help.Thanks ...I placed











the other Parcl Post I have from the same series. It could help because they are carmine color..

It looks like carmine to me.

On my computer they all look like Carmine. The difference between Carmine and Carmine Lake is quite noticeable.

Gibbons Palette

The color thing will/is driving me crazy.

I especially love it when you note a color in a Scott's catalog and then go to the Scott's album to mount the stamp and it lists a different (but similar) color.

It reminds me of something I saw on QVC recently where they were selling bedsheets or whatever. All the sheets had fancy color names and the sales lady kept translating the colors --> "Oh that Auburn color is like a burgandy or sangria or wine color....."


<sigh> Apparently it is not just stamps that are afflicted with this handicap.

The thing with stamps is that they use werdo terms if you're not an Art Major. Back to the OP post - what EXACTLY is "Lake".

I've never seen "Lake" used as a color other than in stamp catalogs.

Ah, LAKE... first time I heard this stamp color I imagined a nice pristine blue lake in upstate Maine... not the muddy bloody run-off I soon found it to be...

I too struggle with Stamp color coding, its getting easier... however I still use my Girl Friend and Google image alot.. I'm just not metro sexual guy I still like dirt under my fingernails and Calluses on my hands.


PS, I vote Carmine... just does not seem a deep enough hue to be lake.

It is carmine, lake pic shown (I hope, first attempt to upload pic)

I dont know if this wil help its a color chart I found with that color on it for USA stamps...
http://reviews.ebay.com/Early-Posta...00006090158" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> br / http://reviews.ebay.com/Early-Posta...000006090158

From a Pierre to our SCF member Ryan April 2010......

Main Entry: 2 lake
Function: noun
Etymology: French laque lac, from Old Occitan laca, from Arabic lakk --
more at LACQUER
1 a : a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
b : any of numerous usually bright translucent organic pigments
composed essentially of a soluble dye absorbed on or combined
with an inorganic carrier
2 : CARMINE 2


I will remember that the lake colour is at litlle bit more purplish than the carmine one.

very insightful thread. Thanks for posting.

hi guys , I found this link and the lake is more of a darker color , please look at this example.
By thw way im colored blind a little, here is a link. This stamp sure looks the same color as mine. thanks
http://www.theswedishtiger.com/xparcel1.htm

Could the other four surrounding the 2c be faded a little?

I vote for Deep Carmine. It is carmine but a more vibrant or full colour.

Look at the solid colour in the scroll where it says Parcel Post. Also, put them all on a black matte background (no reflections or glare) in sunlight (only for the look see), or a light that gives out sunlight spectrum colour.

Looking at the stamp on different colour backgrounds will change the colour in human eyes, or at least tint it towards the part of the spectrum that the background has.

White can be called All colours together but has is usually tinted towards a certain part of the spectrum. Otherwise it would be too bright for us.

Russ,
Welcome! Nice pic of Lake! Thanks!


Nice thread. Nice dictionary excerpt Rod, excellent. Love more data. No disassemble Johny 5!



I have found this same problem in automotive paint. The paint companies call the colours certain names to appeal to the auto buyers, but when different people want different colours they use different names, depending on their own backgrounds.

Fashion oriented or trained people will use fashion colours. Car nuts will use flashy (sometimes) car colours. And then sign makers will have a whole other range of colour names and books and charts. Sign makers are, in my experience, some of the most knowledgeable about colour and how it looks in different conditions and dofferent mediums.

Puzzler, see the following.

https://goscf.com/t/10294

IMO it's carmen.

My opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it.

I have a bunch of 2 cent Washingtons to go through and identify. There is one carmine lake 2 cent stamp worth big money. Don't know if any of mine are that one.
Even just trying to figure out what Scott numbers they are is difficult.
To use the Mopar color- this is driving me Plum Crazy!

Yeah, the slight color tweaks, an added perf per inch, and watermarks all make
for collecting overkill in my mind. I wish the albums were more like:

Red and from a coil...
Blue and from a sheet...
Red and imperf...
If it broke stamps down that far, particularly the ones from 1880-1930,
I would fill the holes and call it done. Right now it takes 4 or 5 of
the same stamp to fill each hole when you include the devices I mentioned.
... I should say 'basically the same stamp'...