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echizento
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Posted 12/03/2010   3:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have a hard time determining the types of this issue. Is this a type Ia or type II? Thanks for any help.
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scott_05
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Posted 12/03/2010   5:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scott_05 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You'll need to start here and have your stamp ready to look at with a 10x or greater magnifying glass.

http://1847usa.com/washfrank/design3/d32perf.htm

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tomiseksj
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Echizento,

Another site I think you'll find useful is: http://www.askphil.org/W-F/02wn.htm

Once I've narrowed the universe of possibilities based on perforation, watermark and printing type, I find a high resolution scan to be helpful in being identifying the design intracacies that define the type.

Good luck!

Steve
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echizento
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Posted 12/03/2010   5:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the info, I'll check out those sites.
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rohumpy
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The first thing you must do is determine the issue this stamp belongs in. The perforation gauge and whether it has a watermark or not. (I guess the most basic is to first determine whether it is engraved or offset).

If I remember right, the type Ia occurs in only two situations. One is excessively rare and the other scarce.
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chasa
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neither - it is offset printing, type VII
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rohumpy
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Now that I look at it more closely, I agree with chasa. It just has that offset look to it. If it is Type VII, it is Scott #528B
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Edited by rohumpy - 12/05/2010 06:28 am
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