US Airmail: C98 And C98A

Here are a couple I've had for a while -- a C98 and C98A, both in MNH condition.

The C98A on the right is the tagged variety and as you can see, my copy has a color shift. I have no idea how that affects the value, but I stumbled across it (through dumb luck) and decided I liked it.



Below is a larger scan showing the details in the C98A.

Great stamp! The color shift is very striking.

Great example of color shift Kirks. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Dianne

It's the Bozo look.

Good one Larry

That's exactly who I look like on bad hair days. I knew he looked familiar.

Dianne

Kirk do you make your own albums?

Dianne, it's not like he had great hair to begin with

mkfarm. No, I've never tried making my own albums. Last week I was looking at a website called "Jims Stamp Album." It was obvious he makes his own pages, they were very impressive.

On thing that annoys me a bit about preprinted albums it it always seems like there are pages where there are blanks for ten stamps: nine easily attainable and one that catalogs for forty thousand dollars :-) Do the catalog makers really think anyone will fill that space??

Excellent color shift example Kirk. The US Airmail shift really shows out.

M_W you took the words out of my mouth Nice color shift KirkS,either your very luck or you have a good eye for these things mate.regards Mate

Nugget. I confess it was mostly luck. It was in a stock book with several others C98A, but my eye went right to the one with the shift. C98A is a little more expensive than the regular C98. I don't remember what I paid, but it wasn't much and there was no price difference because of the color shift.

This is quite a find. It's worth whatever an error collector would other documented errors with this issue are in the 4 figures range.

with Warre nice find mateOh and P.S. G'Day Warrehouse and to the forum

Thanks warrehouse.

There's a similar colorshift on ebay now -- I think I'll watch and see what it sells for.

Definately an EFO worth keeping

Cheers

Bujutsu

Nice find!

It's amazing how the eye just zero's in on little errors like that.

It's kind of like the way my ex-wife used to zero in on the extremely few tiny character flaws in me.

Good one, swabbie.

Reminds me of an old gag... "I had to divorce my wife on religious grounds -- I'm Catholic and she was Satan"

KirkS