Here's A Few That Are Often Overlooked.

Hello everyone......

Do these Pheasant booklet stamps look alike to you ? Would it matter to you to learn that they are very different ? Some don't care as long as they have one as a sample......others need to have every possible variety. All three are from booklets of 10.

Don't bother trying to judge them by color. It's a lot easier to compare perfing.

The first 2 are #3050 & #3050b.

Notice that the corners of the #3050 are slightly rounded...the #3050b have sharper square corners.


Also, the "ears" of both #3050 & #3050b end feathered. The #3051 ends flat.


The #3051 has quite a confusing variety of serpentine perfing. Scott gives one number for the uprights and another for the tilted ones at top & bottom. The problem is that each of the uprights have different perfing....each position is unique.....they are NOT interchangable.



Current values are 20 cents each used except for the 2 tilted ones, they are valued at 50 cents used.

These were issued in 1998 and in 10 years of searching I've been able to reproduce a half dozen of each of the first 2 booklets (#3050 & #3050b).........I have 1 reproduced booklet of the #3501 and I'm missing 2 positions of a second and duplicates of most positions. This indicates to me that the #3051's are considerably scarcer and in my opinion quite under valued.

For anyone interested......For $2.00 I'll send a used pair of each of the #3050 & #3050b.......and 3 positions from the #3051 (one tilted, all id'd) with free shipping. Until they are gone....I have enough for 5 or 6 people.

Thanks for the info, I just got about 100 plus of these the other day. Now at least I can start to check them out and sort them a little better.

Thanks for the mini-lesson Tom. You have a good eye for flyspecking!

Hi Tom,

I will send CHN 20 to you,can you exchange USD in USA?If yes,I will send the money tomorrow,today I have a bad cold,do not want to out.

ZhangCheng

Here is my adress:



For security measure,I have wrote my address to your E-mail.

Hope this action does not offend the regulation for my 27 posts.

Thanks.

Hi NR-Notrare,

I just eat this sort of thing up! Thanks for sharing. I don't have a bunch of these to sort through checking for the varieties, but it is very interesting non-the-less. And you never know when a group of these may unexpectedly be aquired. Hope to see some more of this type of stuff in the forums.

Dave N.
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Hi Tom,

Sorry,I have overlooked of the delivery cost to China,how much the total stamps and delivery cost to me?

ZhangCheng

Thank you Tom, for another fine lesson.. One question
is there a 3050 A ?

Zhangcheng

you should remove your address from the post and email it to Tom. This is for your own protection.

Dianne

By the way

Thanks for the great lesson Tom.

Dianne.

Hi Dianne,
Thank you very much for you reminds me.
ZhangCheng

Wow, so interesting, Tom! You are a great teacher!
Keep it up, PLEASE!
Gussyboy1

Thanks for the info Tom, I remember when I was going through bags of U.S. postage the honeybee issue scott 2281 the position of the honeybee was all over the stamp..he was quite active !!

Tom, a great thread with great info. I don't collect these but do collect the Flag defins and there is much to play with there as well.

Most interesting...thanks.

Londonbus1

Thanks everyone......

.....I'm glad to know you enjoy my effort to show you some of the minor varieties that many collectors overlook. Usually not much for hi-vals but they can make a collection stand out amongst the clones.....and possibly a little added value in the future.