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ID 3-Cent Washington Coil (Postmarked 1919)

 
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Posted 04/30/2011   11:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wt1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
This may be an easy question, but because there are multiple possibilities, I thought I'd ask here. I'm looking to identify the correct Scott # for this 3-Cent Washington Coil. (It's an on-cover piece.)



Thanks for the help.
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Posted 05/01/2011   01:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Russ to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Can you post a larger pic? The toga rope looks to be Type I but it is hard to see and the base leg of the 2 on the cancel goes through the lips.
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Posted 05/01/2011   01:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Is this any better? A higher res image:



...or if this helps, I zoomed in a bit closer to the areas in question:

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Edited by wt1 - 05/01/2011 01:31 am
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Posted 05/01/2011   08:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add razersedge to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
From the quality of the scan it is impossible to identify it you can't make out if the toga button has the lines all the way through it or if the toga line is complete or not try taking a better quality scan and up load it to a pic host site like tinypic.com and post the forum link in the text and it will show the image in the post and it will be much better quality but from what I can make out it looks like a #493 type 1 the reasons I say this are date cancel, the toga button could be complete? The vertical line on the smile is not there (quality of the scan) so I would say it is not a recut on the mouth type II 494 and I can't make out if there is a toga rope line or not, so from what I can see that is what I would say it is but I could be completely wrong because I'm basing it on what I can see not what is there and it might even be a 456 or a 445 unlikely but not impossible but that will go on water mark and if it's flat plate printing or not
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Posted 05/01/2011   09:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
See if this link will be more helpful. (Highest resolution I can get with my scanner):

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums...ilMaxRes.jpg

(It's no wonder I've had a problem with trying to identify the stamp.)
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Posted 05/01/2011   10:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Russ to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is a Type I as evidenced by the very weak upper line in the toga rope. With a May 20, 1919 postmark it would be consistent with rotary press unwatermarked 493. Flat plate vertical perf coils are 18.8-19mm wide and rotary press are 19.5-20mm wide. It is possible that watermarked rotary coils or even flat plate coils could have been used at that date but the odds would favor unwatermarked rotary.
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Posted 05/01/2011   11:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks! Glad to have had your help to identify it. I don't have too many Washington coils from that time period, and there are so many types to choose from.
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Posted 05/01/2011   1:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add razersedge to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That's an easy one if it had been a 2c I wouldn't have made a guess untill there was a better scan because there are more and the details are harder to see
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