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Posted 03/21/2015   1:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Joe to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Well here I am again showing you what I do not know I am looking at Washingtons 448 through 497. We have 1914-16 perf 10 vert 452-458 and 1916-22 perf 10 vert 490-497.

Am I to assume that 452-458 are water marked?
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Posted 03/21/2015   1:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add disi123 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi, Joe... 452-458 Rotary Coils (Perf 10 vertically)
are all single line watermarked...

Randall

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Posted 03/21/2015   1:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Joe to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Randall. I dfo not know why the catalog couldn't just say so.
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Posted 03/21/2015   2:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add dudley to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have always disliked the way Scott handles watermark information. The fact that 452-458 are single-line watermarked (wmk 190) is to be inferred from the fact that this watermark is specified at the head of the listings for #424 and following.
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Posted 03/21/2015   2:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add disi123 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Thanks Randall. I do not know why the catalog couldn't just say so.


Joe... you're quite welcomed, my friend...

My quick reference, which I have been using now for 15 years,
has been my faithful 1999 Brookman catalog... well laid out
and organized with all of the basic information, as compared
with Scott, but, of course, nowhere near as formidable as an
overall information source...

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Posted 03/21/2015   3:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add medoc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I have always disliked the way Scott handles watermark information.

Yes Scott tends to be terse with its information. I suspect it's to help reduce the size of the catalogue. I always thought that Minkus was a better catalogue.
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Posted 03/22/2015   9:07 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Joe to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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My quick reference, which I have been using now for 15 years,
has been my faithful 1999 Brookman catalog.


And if I was to print out and organize all the threads here..................

But yea I find Scotts to be frustrating. You know it is all computerized now so they could just bring all those stamps together or handy chart so I could find stamp A140 in all the places it is without spending half the day searching for it, cataloging it, and then find some obscured location where it also falls. Heck by the time I find all the places it might go I have forgoten all the characteristics of the stamp, and start all over again.

But if it was easy I would have to spend more money for more stamps as I would run out sooner, not even going to mention how many stamps I have to recheck.
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Posted 03/22/2015   9:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Watermarks, along with other good Washington/Franklin info, can also be found on the newly revived 1847usa web site at http://www.stampsmarter.com/1847usa/index.htm
Don
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Don, that is awesome!! Can we get the back story?
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Ryan = HDNAC = DNA = HDC = Hysterical DNA Collector = Historical DNA Collector = me who just loves stamps :)
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Posted 03/23/2015   06:57 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Hieronymus to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Joe,

The Scott catalogue does not repeat information until it changes. That goes not only for watermarks but for perforations, printing method and so forth. You simply run your eyes backward through the listings until you find the most recent designation of perforation or watermark or printing method. Sometimes if something goes unchanged for a long distance, they will repeat the info.

Yes, it is frustrating. It saves maybe ten pages out of 1200 in the Classic Specialized, perhaps 50 pages in the 6, now 7 volumes of the Standard, I suppose. Compared to the increase in pages caused by the issuing policies of wallpaper stamp countries, it's nothing. I would prefer repeating the information with each new series, but, . . . . who am I to judge?
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Posted 03/23/2015   07:20 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
HDNAC,
Please see to this thread,
https://goscf.com/t/41811&whichpage=3
It contains the announcement and additional information.
Thanks,
Don
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