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11A With Green Cancel

 
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Posted 07/31/2011   05:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add razersedge to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
i got this because the cancel looks so clear and unusual but I just want to try to find out more info about the cancel is it a town cancel or a carrier cancel? I cant work out what it says, I know its an 11a but it looks never recut? but 1 top and 1 bottom blocks are joined which is a recuting error so is it recut but just recut(im going by the lines)? and the top half of the stamp looks very much darker than the bottom is this normal or is this the recuting?
this is only the second one of these I have and the other one was always recut so it was easy to tell

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Posted 07/31/2011   06:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rohumpy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It looks as if the inner frame lines have been recut, so it is 11A. Perhaps the difference in intensity of color between the top and bottom is caused by different degrees of inking of the plate.
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Posted 07/31/2011   08:13 am  Show Profile Check sinclair2010's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add sinclair2010 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Could be Macon, GA. My old American Stampless Cover Catalogue lists Macon as using green 1850-51, the January (1852)? postmark makes it possible.
Recutting can be found on any 3c 1851 stamp, type I and II, #10, 10A, 11, and 11A. Yours is position 14R1L, has both label blocks joined, as mentioned, inner lines recut, and the charecteristic Plate 1L recutting of the top label block and upper right diamond block.
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Posted 07/31/2011   09:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add razersedge to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That would fit because the letters I could see are ACON but I couldn't find any where that the letters fitted. So is it a town/date cancel then?
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Posted 07/31/2011   6:10 pm  Show Profile Check sinclair2010's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add sinclair2010 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, it would be a Macon, GA circular date stamp.
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