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Late Use Orange Brown 10A?

 
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Posted 11/01/2015   4:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add stampcrow to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Taking a break from my plating studies.

But keeping my nose in the 'three cent' collection. I'm looking at this stamp cancelled, May 8.
It has the quality of orange brown ink.
I've scanned it with one I'm sure is orange brown.

Edit:just wanted to add why I'm sure the stamp on the left is OB.
First, it's a type I. Second, it has the small Boston paid cancel.
The combination makes this a plate 1e early or 1i intermediate.

I first learned that from sinclair2010.
Type I stamps are from plate 1e, 1i (#10) and also plates 4,6,7 and 8 (#11).
Of the 4,6,7 and 8 plates, 4 was the earliest put into use. That wasn't until 1855. That's well after the Boston small paid was out of use.

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Posted 11/01/2015   6:21 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Classic Coins to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Can you show a camera image of these two?
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Posted 11/01/2015   6:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGB to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Plating goes right over my head. I admire you guys who study it.
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CC, will do. It will take a few minutes. I'm afraid you're going to tell me I'm wrong about the stamp on the left lol.

KGB, I'm just beginning down the path. Luckily we have a some experts on this site!
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Edited by stampcrow - 11/01/2015 6:44 pm
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Posted 11/01/2015   6:48 pm  Show Profile Check sinclair2010's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add sinclair2010 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You are definitely right about the left stamp. I think the other is OB too.
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Sorry the images are a little washed out at top. I can do again with light from bottom if needed.



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Edited by stampcrow - 11/01/2015 8:16 pm
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I still think the second stamp is an OB. The cancel is Savannah, GA if you hadn't already figured it out or if you care.
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Thanks sinclair2010, I didn't see it as a G and a in the cancel, until seeing it in the camera image.

I'm puzzled by such late use. Would sheets of stamps sit idle at the post office for months?
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Stampcrow,

Excellent deductions regarding the stamp on the left!

Back in the 1850s, customers typically brought their mail to the post office to be mailed, paid only for the stamps they needed, and they were affixed by the postal clerk. Purchasing of stamps by customers for later use was uncommon, as is indicated by dating plates, plate wear, and ink color and quality changes via cover study. A newly-printed sheet of 3-cent imperforates likely would have been delivered to the post office and used up in a month or so. #10s were all but used up by May 1852, but there are confirmed usages in 1853, 1854, and even one in 1858.
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