U601 - Color Variety?

Scott lists this as a deep magenta color.

This example is more of a purplish-brown. If I put it next to the picture in the catalog, the difference is quite marked.

Anyone have any insight on this one? Or am I just seeing things?

Don't trust the catalog illustrations for exact colors. The printing process in catalogs are often deceptive in comparison to the actual product. In this case, I have a mint first day cancelled postal stationery envelope of that issue and the color seems normal.

Here's a scan of the corner of my cover:

Thanks wt1. Yours looks to be the same color. A far cry from deep magenta, though.

I am not an expert on colours but they have always held a fascination for me in Philately.
Not only because of the different colour ideas between countries but also the names used to describe them.
Then there is the problem of how the colours come over on one's computer screen compared to looking at the actual item.

I do not possess the item in question here but just wanted to say that I can see quite a big difference between Smauggie's and wt1's scans.
I only posted because Smauggie has pointed out that 'it looks to be the same colour' when from where I am looking, it definitely is not.

It's how we view it and where and the names of the colours really depends where you are in the world.

Just as a bit of fun, I see Smauggie's offering as Deep Claret and wt1's as Purple-Brown......but then I'm not in the USA !

Londonbus1....great fun.

Agree LB, on my computer screen the two shades are definitely different. The original posted by smauggie has more of the purple tint to it. Almost a "rosiness"

Here are two images from the same scanner:








I have always thought there were two distinct colors for this issue. Hard to get the catalog editors to respond with multiple catalog (sub-) numbers.

I ordered my 20th Century Postal Stationary catalog from the UPSS. Can't wait to get it.

Nice images from ThomasGalloway...and two more colours to add to the tale.
Neither of these two match the two shown earlier...at least not on my screen they don't.
Could be that there are many colour shades of this Postal Stationery
Does anyone have more than two examples to show ?

Londonbus1

The UPSS list 16 varities of this U601 "20c The Capital Dome" envelope. UPSS #'s 3671-3677. The first 12 are with phosphoresecent
tagging indesign, one with phosphoresecent bar tag left of stamp and 3 with square ended windows.