Cool Stamps I Found In My Collection.

Any idea what I have here? Anything special?

I could post better pics if necessary.

very nice stamps and yes better scans would help. :) nice documentary stamps though. - jeff

Nice stamps, I would recommend you remove them from the photo album page however.

Looks like some nice Back of Book "BOB" material: US IRS Documentary stamps, US Postage Dues, and US Special Delivery.

Based on your first scan it seems you have the $2.20 and $3.30 denominations of Series 1953 overprint Documentary Stamps. Scott Catalog #R637 ($2.20 denomination) and R640 ($3.30 denomination). I have an old 2002 catalog suggesting that the value can range from $2.00 to $26.00, depending on whether they are mint, used, cut cancel or have perforated initials. (The last two types are obviously the lowest range of value). Can't tell from your scan exactly what you have to give more detail.

I'll take better pics in a little bit. Thank you for the helpful information as I couldn't find some of them in my book but my book is a lil'bit out dated however. :P

If you would only put [img ] and [/img ] tags around those hyperlinks (without any spaces inside the brackets), then we could see them here without having to click ourselves to death....

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OK,haha "click ourselves to death" nice... anyways...here ya go. enjoy.

Great stamps by the way.
The DOCS are nice, but also a great bunch of Postage Due.

KirkS

Thanx!

I-Love_Stamps, thanks for posting your stamps. I don't have any documentaries and enjoyed looking at them.

This is not really a reply related to stamp collecting, but an example of what we stamp collectors come across when researching items such as the Documentary Stamps shown in this thread.

I don't think I've seen (or at least hadn't noticed before) the portrait that appears on these Documentary Stamps of an "L.J. Gage" so I looked it up on Wiki and found that Lyman Judson Gage was Secretary of the Treasury during the McKinley and T. Roosevelt Administrations from 1897-1902.

In reading further into his biography, I found it interesting that he was "one of the 30 founding members of the Simplified Spelling Board". Now I asked myself, what in the world was that organization (I never heard of it before) and so I came across the attached link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpli...elling_Board

... What a worse mess the US would have been in had this ever been adopted!

Just goes to show the interesting things you find when researching stamps.

Man that's some awesome history you dug up there! Thank you and BTW, the reason they are creased is that they was over the flap of an old manila type envelope. Very cool wiki read.

whats the post above this one all about? spam maybe?

they sitting on a paper towel?

yup just long enough to snap he pic then back into the glassine envelope. I know sulphur right? :P