Washington Head Variety Question

Would someone check my work here?



I think I have accurately defined Stamp #1, #3 and #4 (which was discussed in a separate thread).

What I'm not sure about is Stamp #2. Is it merely a color variety of Stamp #1 and should be designated as a #498? Or does the appearance of a more green shaded face reveal yet a different catalog variety?

Nothing of any great value here, but I've had these similar stamps sitting in a stockbook for way too long and have just gone through the trouble of trying to identify them.

Thanks.

As I'm not a specialist I can only chime in with my best opinion and I believe both stamps 1 & 2 to be #498. Scott lists this particular illustration only twice as perf. 11 -- one as flat plate and one as rotary.

The difference in color may be attributed to inking, toning of the paper, and/or difference in the exposure to light, elements, etc.

What colour is its back, greenish paper?

Back of second stamp scanned below. It doesn't appear greenish to me. But then what do I know? It's the very reason why I haven't tackled these stamps before now!

Now you have me with same puzzled.

I agree with panda.bear that they are both Scott 498. Here are a few perf 11, flat plate 498s I pulled from my duplicate stock that show the shading differences.



If you're not already using them, the AskPhil and 1847USA Washington-Franklin identifiers are good resources.

http://www.askphil.org/W-F/Index.htm

http://www.1847usa.com/washfrankmain.htm

Scott Specialized lists 4 different shades of green for the 498.

Thanks for the help. It's pretty much what I thought, too. I just wanted to double-check. I have a number of them (Scott 498) and it was just the color variations that threw me off track.

But how the green dyed around design?