I Got My 216! Back Of Book Version... Pics Inside.

https://goscf.com/t/17143

I posted some classics I found today in the classic
forum. I rescued them from my little stamp hoard I
have begun trying to sort. I have a long road ahead
yet, but as I promised in the other thread, here are
the BoB highlights rescued from the hoard pile...

Most of the revenues, while really neat looking, have
some sort of problem or another. Faulted fillers...

Enjoy
Dave

I'm liking that official postal seal.

Do you know anything about it?
I can't find anything on it...
It's the only one I have found so far.

Go to that marvelous stamp forum, SCF :)
search "officially sealed"

and bingo!

https://goscf.com/t/9242

Thanks Rod.
Good thread there.
I wouldn't have thought these would show up in the Cinderella forum
though. They have a real usage. Apparently it was for sealing up
envelopes that were discovered in transit with the flap open or such.

I thought the pair of $5 postage due stamps were pretty unique.
How often would you think that someone would owe $10 postage?
Even for 1947 that was a pretty good chunk of change, so it must
have been on a large package one would assume. That would be like
getting a package today and being told that the sender stuck you
for $100 bux shipping before you could take the package.

Great set of stamps there ratio411!

Thank you sir!

Question about the stamps with the "IR" overprint...
I have dozens of the red ones with black overprint,
but only one of copy of the green with red "IR".
Is the green version less common?

Based on my old 2002 Scott Catalog, I think the 1-cent green Franklin stamp with the "I.R." red overprint is R154. 2002 SCV was minimum $0.20.

Actually, I think the red/pink 2-cent Franklins you scanned above with the dark "I.R." overprint are really blue and not black. Typically all of these varieties on the 1-cent and 2-cent Franklins go for catalog minimum, the only exception would be the scarcer inverted overprint varieties, which catalog for a few dollars depending on the issue.

The 2c are Washington... I'm sure it was a late night
typo, but that is what you meant right?

Yes. My mistake. The 2-cent varieties are Washington; the 1-cent is Franklin.

Nice gathering and I've followed your big purchase journey so expect there has to be some more treasures to find.
On a different note I like your signature-- Ron Paul is about the only politician I've heard make any sense in the past few weeks of this Washington little boys club fiasco. Funny when revenues were collected by stamps they didn't have this problem.

Some appear very dark and almost decidedly black,
while some appear dark-blue or dark indigo I would
assume might be the proper term. ??? A very few
appear to be very obviously blue. I have many, but
just taking the two extremes from this one scan,
I come up with the darkest and lightest examples
seen here side by side

...

Nitro:
I think in the scheme of things, I overpaid for the lot I bought...
However, I am having a blast going through it, and that is priceless.

On the "IR" stamps:
I have made a conscious decision NOT to collect revenue
stamps or doc stamps. I am limiting my BoBs to postage
(ie airmail) and Ducks (just because they're pretty).

I am just going to take my best 1c and 2c examples, one
of each, and mount them neatly beside their non-overprinted
regular postage versions in the album, and leave it at that.
The rest I will apply to my growing group of duplicates that
will become trading material and goodwill gimmies.