C10, Lindbergh Booklet Single

The C10, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, was produced in two versions - standard sheet format and also a booklet containing two panes of three stamps which Scott titles C10a. The booklet stamp is clearly different from the sheet stamp since both the right and left sides of the stamp have a straight edge with no selvage. However, a single stamp detached from the pane is not addressed by Scott - only the three stamp pane in either mint or unused condition. Since I happen to have one of the detached booklet stamps, what am I to call it? I wondered if someone could explain the logic to this, or is it just one of those unexplainable secrets of the universe?

You can call it a single from the booklet pane. Most collectors would not consider it any more valuable than a straightedge C10.

Hi lpmiller.

The single in my US Scott's Specialized is not listed either, it just lists it, as you state, as a booklet pane of three.

I am surprised the Scott US Specialized does not list singles from that pane or any other booklet pane for that matter.

I know for Canadian stamps, the booklet singles are listed because here in Canada a lot of collectors want to create complete booklets from used or mint singles.

Hope you can get some kind of an answer

Chimo

Bujutsu

Bujutsu, curiously enough, Scott routinely designates specific Scott numbers for single definitive US stamps from booklet panes and for some airmail singles from booklet panes. For example, #3985 is a single stamp and 3985a is the 20-stamp pane. Likewise, C79 is a single with C79a designating the booklet. There are a host of other definitives like this, but I haven't been able to find a US commemorative that presents a good example. There may be some; I just haven't found any. In most cases with commemoratives, like the seven different stamps in the Legends of American Music booklet (#2737a), they are se-tenant so each one obviously receives its own individual Scott number. Same for the 1994 Locomotive panel (#2847a), five different locomotives each with its own Scott number and the "a" designating the five stamp panel. I still find it an amusing curiosity that I physically have a stamp in my hand, this single from a C10a, that is definitely and significantly different from its brother, C10, and yet there is no proper number for it. It's not a C10, but it's also not a C10a. So what is it?

I agree its something of an oddity that the C10 Booklet is not listed as a single in the Scott Catalog. Perhaps its because collectors prefer to collect them as a full pane. Irregardless, I would still refer to it as C10A when it comes to identification. If you want to really pull hairs "C10A Single" or "C10 from booklet".

-P.Bear