#10A Or #11A?

hallo stamp is Orange Brown, #10A or #11A?

I mine is #10A?

Dittrich, you seem to have quite a few very early US stamps. Did you inherit a collection?

hallo carlberky, I have some stamps and only new stamps of cover to purchase by auction.

I will these a little to expand, more as hobby.

I have not the best cover but ...

Im afraid I cant help with your identification, but you have some very nice items in your collection. Keep up the good work, or play as it should be.

Your first stamp/cover is a Type II, Scott #10A and your second item is a Type I, Scott #11 from the top row of the plate. The #11 is a C relief stamp and exhibits what is known as the "gash on shoulder", a C relief characteristic, which is actually just above the toga button.

The #10A is really nice IMO.

Dittrich, in a previous post, you said that you weren't concerned about the Historical Value of your covers. Due to the large numbers of similar stamps as these for sale at very low prices, there is probably a better chance of re-selling (if necessary) as covers.

dittrich,

Your first stamp (#10A) is plate position 73R5e. Beautiful stamp!

I wonder if the addressee on the #10 cover is the same person as on my first folded letter below, of four Lockwood folded letters in my collection. Apparently this was quite an estate with many surviving covers:

thank @Classic Coins, sinclair2010 and carlberky for your help

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CC I thought that was a great question about the covers being connected. In fact, all of those covers are connected. A.D. (Amos) Lockwood was born in RI on 30 Oct 1811 and at age 16 he started working in a Providence store which dealt in cotton goods. Within a couple of years he left to work as an operator in a Massachusetts cotton mill. He learned the business quickly, holding many positions in the company, and by 1832 was the Superintendent. By 1835 he was the Resident Agent for the company. In 1843, A.D. and his brother M.B. (Moses), along with a brother-in-law, leased the mill from it's current owners and renamed it AD Lockwood & Company. By 1851 they had purchased interest in another mill--you guessed it, Quinebaug Manufacturing Company located in Danielsonville, Conn. They soon bought out that entire company and A.D. became the Agent while M.B. was the Treasurer. A.D. also had an office in Boston, and the Lockwood Company was involved with engineering and designing mills all over the South--in particular the Piedmont area of the Carolinas where I live. If you really want to know more, check out the references below.

References:
The Lockwood Greene Records. Retrieved from http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC1113.pdf
Van Slyck, J. D. (1879) New England manufacturers and manufactories; Vol I. Van Slyck & Co.: Boston. Retrieved from https://books.google.com

Achilles,

Thank you for the interesting Lockwood information! I tucked these covers away about 15 years ago, and never researched the business. Your post adds some "history" to my postal history collection.