Identifying Stamp

hi all.anyone have any info in this one. I am starting to look up what I have

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Your stamp is a C23, 1938 6 cent U.S. Airmail, "Eagle holding Shield-Olive Branch and Arrows."

This ones easy United States airmail C-23 catalog value 50 cents unused and 20 cents used !!

thank you I see that now. what was the differents from the c23 and the c23a and b was there a error on it

The C23a is a vertical pair, and the C23b is a horizontal pair.

In some of the sheets of stamps, lines of perforations were missed, so 2 stamps would not have a row of "punched holes" separating them. Some Horizontal and other vertical. Not many as the prices for 23a and 23b indicates. In order to keep people from just cutting the "half holes off of the edge of a single stamp, it is required to have at least 2 stamps showing no holes between them "imperf" ( imperforated). The 23a would have nor holes between the 2 horizontally, the 23b, vertically.Half way down this page is a 23b.

Jim

http://www.wpa.net/~jvaughn/NLTR0803/Nltr0803.htm

ok how about this I think they are from the 1920's and germany

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Boxofstamps...Yes you are correct...Germany 1920's issues

if you look at the stamp to the left it is a little off center.

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being that the Eagle was not centered. does that mean it was from a different year.

They could have been printed in a different year. It was first issued in 1938 but not replaced with a 6 cent airmail stamp until 1941. The eagle is off center, but what is more interesting, however, is if one of them is C23c, ultramarine and carmine.