Officials With Specimen Overprint

Yes they are.
There are any number of females on taxpaids, but they are all symbolic beings rather than any specific known person. Liberty is the big one on the Scott listed revenues.

The woman on the tater stamp is identified as "Young Woman" in my '96 Specialized, just a little out of date.

IndianGoldEagle,with the special printings an easy achievable goal is all four printings. There were five printings, but quoting William E Mooz from volume 164 of the Cronical


Think that I'm with the second camp, this 1 Cent Specimen is on intermediate paper.




It is a deeper shade than all of the other Agriculture Specimems I have, and the overprint is different. I've used a second printing overprint as a comparison here because it has a dropped S, but the intermediate paper's overprint has a dropped S and C and a small size I. What do you think?

I received my first Specimens today.

Nice start, especially O25s. Is the overprint of the O1s crooked? With the specimens ( I prefer to call them special printings ) always pay attention to the overprint's placement as it can be and is all over the stamps. The is especially important with the state SP, the 3rd printing is hard to tell apart from the 1st and 2nd printings, until you look at the overprint, it is a different font and slightly longer. All of the descriptions say that it is a distintive shade of yellowgreen, and it is, but until you actually see one, you can't tell on a computer monitor, except by the overprint. I picked up my last O57 xs ( American printing, fouth special printing) for under $10 just this month.







This next pic is a composite of four O57 xs overprints along with an O1 1st printing overprint for comparison. Notice how some of the Ps and all of the E are bold and a different sized font?

Phil, I have no idea what "crooked" is. Here is a better shot of that stamp. Maybe you can tell me what I have. This is all new to me.

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Looks like only the second E is bold, the P and first E is same thickness as the other letters.

The overprint on your O1s is crooked as in not straight, it runs down hill on the right side, doesn't mean anything other than to show how much the overprint can "wander", just interesting.




The different sized fonts are only on the fouth printing, the American 1 cent State. I have 5 of them, all purchased as O57s, because the ebay sellers were unaware of what they were offering.The bold looking second E in your Agriculture overprint looks to me like more ink to that side of the overprint, notice how the top of the M is a little bolder than the rest of the letters?

chipg The Golden collection is comming to auction? OMG! Time to sell the house! There's going to be items in that auction that I've only read about, like those imperforate pairs including all the dollar values..WOW!

LR Phil:
...and you can't ignore the SEPCIMENs. They come up so infrequently that this may be your only chance at some of them.

You may need to sell the wife also.
C.

Too late! Used that money to chase 1st, 2nd, and 3rd printing errors.

Those Golden Imperforate pairs are unique! Also unique is the 3 cent Post Office SEPCIMEN error and then there's four INVERTED overprints being offered... Maybe I don't really need this second kidney...going to be an interesting spring. :)

Nice pick up, you do have some nice stuff!

Thanks! Been at it quite a while. As both revcollector and chipg have said;






It can be a long wait sometimes, the Navy SEPCIMEN above is EX Markovitis, from the Matthew Bennett auction in February of 2004.

The upcomming Siegal auction of the Golden collection in March is way too rich for my blood.

Added one more. Seems like once you get the 1c issues the others get very expensive.

You're correct. The first special printing of the official stamps was in July of 1875, and that printing was of 10,000 each of every face different Official, 93 stamps. By Dec 1875, the second printing of 10,000 more 1 cent Agriculture, Executive, Justice, and State departments was needed. There were three more printings, three of the stamps from these printing are not identified in the catalouge. More on those at some other time.

So getting all nine 1 cent Special printings is fairly easy, be selective when looking for O82s ( 2185 ) the 1 cent Treasurary, its the scarcest of the 1 cent special printings, and O83s ( 309 )is the scarcest 2 cent. The 7 cent stamps are next and are affordable.Only the Navy, State, Treasury and War Departments have a 7 cent value, and the scarcest of them is O76s with just 198 sold. After these stamps, it gets much harder to find them.