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I am using White Ace pages, and the page which contains the "Uncle Sam Top Hat design (Scott 3260, 3264-3269). Provides spaces for 1 "sheet stamp", 1 "convertible booklet stamp", 1 "ATM Pane" single, and 3 coil pairs. The quotes refer to White Ace's labeling of the spaces.
My Scott 2011 catalog shows 1 sheet stamp (3260), 4 coils (3263-3266), and 3 booklet stamps (3267-3269). Obviously White Ace didn't provide spaces for all varieties (nothing unusual!), but their labeling is what has me stumped. I can't find any reference to either an "ATM pane" or "convertible" booklet stamp associated with these items in Scott's catalog.
Where does White Ace come up with this labeling? Can anyone clarify?
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Scott doesn't refer to ATM panes ... instead look for a booklet stamp that contains a pane of 18 stamps. Scott #3269 is the ATM stamp. Most of the ATM stamps, especially the early ones, were also die-cut gauge 8 which provides another clue to the stamp's identity. The convertible booklets are 3267 and 3268, but the one the regular White Ace supplement is referring to is 3268. To determine this you need to look closely at the die-cuts on the pictured stamp. 3267 is die-cut 9.9 ... the pictured stamp's die-cuts look more like gauge 11 (3268). Added: The Scott #s for all of the "top hats" appear on White Ace page 144 as follows ... 3260, 3268, 3269, 3266, 3264 & 3265. Not pictured is 3267 (die-cut 9.9 booklet stamp). Note that there are two varieties of 3268. 3268 (die-cut 11.25) comes from a CB10 where as 3268b (die-cut 11) comes from a one-sided booklet pane of 20. There are also 2 gum varieties for 3260 ... shiny & low gloss. |
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I just noticed that you referred to 4 coils ... but one of them, 3263, is actually the 22-cent Uncle Sam rather than his hat. Note that there is an interesting variety of the Uncle Sam pane stamp (Scott 3259). The Uncle Sam panes consist of 4 rows of 5 stamps. What is really strange about this issue is that some panes contain stamps with two different die gauges. 3259 is die-cut 10.8. For some reason, some panes were produced with a single row of 5 stamps (3259a) die-cut 10.8x10.5. To muddy the waters further, the row of 3259a can appear anywhere in the pane. The most common pane contains all 3259 ... the rarest pane contains 3259a in the top row. Each pane variety has been assigned a different catalogue value by Scott. You can also collect a vertical pair (3259b) of the two stamps (3259 and 3259a). |
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Thanks JLLebert for all of the helpful info. I had already matched up my stamps with the White Aces photos, but I wanted to have some confirmation! You provided that. Thanks for the catch on my calling 3263 the top hat design. I missed that.
I used to ask you guys where I could find certain info, but I've learned the SCF IS the place to find it! |
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Scott's The National Postage Stamp Album has a space for each of these issues/types except for the errors; however I missed seeing Scott 3260 had two different gum types, I only had shinny gum and was missing the low gloss gum which I just ordered thanks to this comment-same Scott#,just different gums. |
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