Included were quite a few postage dues. These should be J39, perf 12, watermark 191. They are the same color as J36b, but in my Specialized catalog there is no Pale Rose listed for J39. Are they just faded examples?
Are they in fact watwrmarked? Could they be J81s? I don't collect Bureau postage dues, but the only other color that would be similar would be the dull carmine of the 1931 printing. It's also possible that they are faded, and if so could also be the 1917 printing, carmine rose.
Lots of shades on these, especially since it is not a strong stable color to begin with and who knows where they have been for the last 70 or 80 years.
All appear faded/altered to me. If you look closely at the left stamp (and to a lesser extent the center stamp,) you can still see evidence of the true color in the lattice work - a deeper more vibrant shade, probably in the claret family.
Stamps of the US perf-12 postage due series were printed with ink that is not 100% color-fast. Every time they get soaked, cleaned up, some of the red color gets left in the water. They loose color even faster when you use warm water [as recommended here often!]. The original stamps didn't look like these.
srailkb, I have read about the lattice work holding the true color of ink better than the rest of the design somewhere but not sure where. Why is that? Is the cut deeper there than the other parts of the design?
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Posted 10/22/2014 4:45 pm
