Postage Due Stamps

Hello,

I could use some help identifying these Postage due stamps.

Here is an early morning, best guess...

First one: J22

second one: J23 Since I don't trust colors on a computer screen...J23 is bright claret, J16 is pretty much like it except the color is red brown...that's remotely possible.

third one: This one gets complicated.
Have you checked for any watermark? Also check the perforation.
J29 unwatermarked perforation 12 (pretty rare...unlikely that you have this one...still, possible)
J38 double line watermark perforation 12
J45 single line watermark perforation 12
J52 single line watermarked perforation 10
J59 unwatermarked perforation 10
J61 unwatermarked Perforation 11

Hello Buck,

Thanks for helping me. I will check the third one later and I will let you know if I need any help.

Always glad to help if I can.

I have some Postage Due stamps in my collection, but the first couple of catalogs I checked didn't have Postage Due at all! I guess that just about makes me the world's foremost expert on Postage Due stamps. Ha!

Also like to point out the 1st and 3rd stamps are possible silent precancels. Many PO's would precancel Postage Due so it was ready to go as needed! They used pen, crayons, paint brush, and a variety of handstamps!

Yep. I never understood the need for canceling postage due stamps, myself. When you paid the postage due, you were handed the item. If you had the item, the postage due had been paid...nobody would reuse a postage due stamp because it meant extra money to be paid. I guess that's one of the costs of bureaucracy and the regulations thereof.