Scott #65 Help Needed

Hello I am needing some information on a stamp I have. I know it is a Scott #65. It is on the original envelope of a letter to family from an imprisioned soilder in Charleston back home to NY. I have the letter and envelope with stamp. I was told the stamp was not valuable, only the letter itself. I know there are different shades of color and some are more hard to find than others. Can anyone please help me out. I feel it's worth something as well. Thanks in advance.

Howdy, while this is not much help, you may find it a little useful.

regards, Theron.

http://www.jamesdire.net/ID/64-65.html

abranch, you didn't give us, what collectors of the shades of this stamp would consider the most important piece of information---- what is the year on the cancel? All of the shades are collectable by year and by specific parts of each year.

It would be a big difference in what the shade is, if it's say, 1861, where that is the only year with that month where your stamp could be called "pink-anything", or if it's '63 when you see some lilac roses, crimson roses and clarets or '64 where there is tons of lake rose and lake browns....

As light as the stamp is, I'd guess that it's either faded, or '61, or sometime late, like '65 or '66.....but POW, it wouldn't be '66. Is it '61??

Hope this helps, Ray

Looks like a Port Royal S. C. cancel. Port Royal was occupied by Union forces on November 7, 1861. Good chance this is in the pinkish shade family, if the year is 1861 (as Ray mentions). Better scan might help Identify a shade too.