I recently purchased a used sc 238...15c columbian... it has a cork cancel, , has never been hinged and has the original glue, undisturbed......"whats up with that" Some sort of CTO?
The glue gum looks disturbed to me (though evenly spread). My guess is the stamp was steamed off instead of soaked, melting the glue gum rather than dissolving it.
I apologize, it was a 10c not a fifteen, and after looking carefully at an MNH OG and this sample, I see a difference in the glue....gum thank you for your speedy answer
You see this very often with revenue stamps from the 1860s, stamps with part or almost full OG, but canceled. Many of these were sweated (steamed) from documents. Also, in their haste to process many documents, clerks frequently used a minimal amount of moisture to adhere the stamps, and over the course of decades, the stamps simply "pop off" the documents.
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Posted 06/01/2011 2:08 pm
