I Need A Little ID Help On A Few Classics Please?

Ray is this the one you suspected was a #25? I don't see the bottom frame line.



Also, is this the one you think is a #10



One more- what's a sure-fire way to tell a #10 from an #11? Everything I'm reading has me a bit confused?

This is the one they had marked as a #10 but don't think it is plus it has a washed off pen cancel. What's your opinion on it?

Though I don't have any good #10 or #11, a collector in my local stamp club has made a one-year calendar of these beauties. May be worth a look ...

Note that it also contains the very difficult to find/rare Feb 29th cancel.

http://s330633628.onlinehome.us/185...calendar.pdf

WOW - that is incredible!

That's really amazing!

OK this is what I was able to find out:


This could take forever. I have 6 I need to ID yet. Most are probably 11's though. They are the ones in the original scans.

ILS-Platng the stamps is about the only way that I know to get #10 and #11 correctly identified. Anything thats not "orange brown" can't be a #10, but orange-brown doesn't rule out #11 since there was an experimental orange-brown color for some early #11s. Also, there are degrees of the shade of orange-brown. At least that's the info. I've read about distinguishing between them. Good info., and plating info., on www.uspcs.org (U.S. Philatelic Classic Society) but you'll need to be a member to use it--worthy of joining I think. There is also some info. at these sights: www.nystamp.org and www.stamps4collectors.com and there are probably others. Perhaps someone else will add some sites to review.

Thank you Al E. Gator I am VERY familiar with the U.S. Philatelic Classic Society. Although I haven't yet joined. I think I will though. I love reading over there.

Your possible #25 is a #26. The middle stamp with the small Boston PAID looks like it is most likely a #10A. Your scanner doesn't reproduce colors very well, it adds a lot of red, which is pretty common. It isn't worth much with the major crease going across the stamp anyway. The bottom stamp is hard to say. It looks like when the cancel was cleaned the color of the stamp was changed. Unfortunately this stamp isn't worth much either.

I wanted to add that plating is very rarely ever needed to identify the 3c 1851's.

Thank you Sinclair! I'll scan that 10 again without any tone adjustment. It has an auto color thing I can turn off. Also these was found in a big lot through Apfelbaum's auction. (not by me though)
OK no color enhancement whatsoever.

Jeff, sorry about the false hope on the 26. I really thought I could see a bottom frame line on the original scan which obviously wasn't there

Ray

No problem at all. It was my fault for the crappy scan. Thank you very much ray.mac and Sinclair!