How Rare Are These 10-Cent Bicentennials?

Does anyone have a sense of how many U.S. BiCentennial 10-cent Stamps-OUT OF REGISTER-exist in the the marketplace and/or collections? The stamps depict U.S. Army and U.S. Navy uniforms of the Revolutionary War era.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Larry,

Welcome to SCF. I don't know how many stamps were printed but there were over one million first day cover cancellations recorded. With a catalog value of $.85 for an unused block of four(Scott 1568a) I think it safe to conclude the stamps are still fairly common.

As to your question regarding "out of register" numbers, I'm not sure where one would find that data. For general info, there are currently four lots involving color shifts listed on ebay.

Steve

Thank you!

The US Revolutionary War Uniforms issue (Scott 1568a) are indeed very common stamps. Issued July 4, 1975, 179,855,000 stamps were printed and 1,134,831 first day covers serviced. In fact, it's the largest printing of 1975 stamps (except for the Christmas Issues) made in that year.

thanks for the input. But what about such stamps with color registration that's noticeably off? Is there a history of that?

Here's an ebay listing suggesting that color misregistration exists on that US Revolutionary War issue. How common is probably an unknown, but it happens. Values can be all over the place, though. Generally, they may command a premium, but not to the point of being "valuable" as a true error would be. In fact, they would be classified as more of a "freak" than an "error" and since there is no one accepted catalog upon which to base values--it usually depends upon what a buyer is willing to pay and what a seller is willing to accept in order to value the item:

http://cgi.ebay.com/us-stamps-error...ht_813wt_905

Interestingly, as with many stamps of that era, they were printed by Photogravure method on the Andreotti Press, which has been known to produce a number of color misregistrations. In fact, here's an example I posted in another thread yesterday that although it is an entirely different stamp, it too shows a color misregistration and was produced by the same Photogravure method on the Andreotti Press: