Dave, I believe the cancel ("A.T.S. & Co.") is that of A.T. Stewart & Co., a dry goods firm headquartered in New York. The founder and head of the company was Alexander Turney Stewart, who at one time was apparently one of the wealthiest men in the world. You can look him up on Wikipedia for more information.
rustyc and Revcollector, many thanks for information on the cancel ("A.T.S. & Co."), I've always been chasing down cancels. This is one I've had for many years and could never get a line on it. Now I have, thanks you two.
This is the Foreign Entry of the 6 cent Agriculture of the 2 cent Executive. The 6 cent transfer roll was used to enter position 40 ( of a 100 subject plate )through some error, discovered and erased and or burnished out and the proper 2 cent Executive impression was re-entered. This variety appears on all printings of the 2 cent Executive plate, this one is an Atlanta Trial Proof, O11TC4a.
Sebastopolfun, welcome to the forum. Yours is not a very clear picture, but it looks like a scratch of some kind. It is too straight to be a plate crack in my opinion. But a sharper scan may reveal something different.
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