#27 5c Jefferson

Here is my #27.



Here is the 1200dpi version

Type I's are one of my personal favorite.

That stamp is a good example of scarce stamps getting repair jobs even in the year 1900 or before. I think whole pieces have probably been added to the right side and the design painted in where necessary and then crudely reperfed. It looks like the lower left corner has also had some perfs added (left side and the bottom).

Very interesting Winston,

Tomorrow I'll make a high res scan so we can take a closer look.

If we can catch the crook, then we'll hang um from the gallows! (might be a bit elderly)

It's probably to fragile to remove from the mount, but I'll bet the back could tell quite a tale about what was done.

The perfs have been razor cut which in the early 20th century was the way to reperf a stamp which is a shame but it is also a piece of history and that someone has spent hours repairing a stamp that might not of made it to this age if it wasn't repaired and could have ended up destroyed or lost

OK, the question is this: What value can you place on a stamp like this that has been repaired over 100 years ago?

Hey kosmet!
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Ron

I see, said the blind man. The stamp has just had a couple of pieces of paper glued on, repainted, and then reperfed. There is also a hole in TJ's head that has been similarly repaired I would say.

BTW, is it a 27 or 28,or 29?

So, could someone circle or annotate it... I'm still not seeing it.

Looks great in the high res, Kosmet. I like this stamp, not in spite of, but because of the repair. Gives it a nice patina of battle-hardened personality. BF (was it Bev?) the repairs are evident in the doohicky sticking out on the middle of the right side, compare it to the left. And in the lower left corner, there's a piece of paper of a different color glued to the back. Both areas also have some ink that is not the same color as the rest. It looks brick-red (#27) to me, but I am frequently wrong about the color things.

Thanks Otto!