Whats Going On With This #26

Few questions about this stamp if I may?

1) What is the line running across the stamp?
2) Is it from the wiping part or lack of the stamp as its the same color? To big of an area for a crack plate.
3) Where could I get a template to print off to view the re-cuts of lines and blocks,damage transfers. I guess the varieties of recutting? Kind of like the one that you can print off for Franklin that has the complete design.

Thank you forum for your knowledge

I believe that is part of the major plate crack

Newby, go to the electronic library of the USPCS site. Dr Carroll Chase' book, the U.S. 3 cent 1851-57 stamp is there.

According to the PF site it is POS. 71L18. Cert 335322, on cover.

http://pfsearch.org/pfsearch/pf_grd...=&certsymbol[]=All&subtype[]=All&certcolor=&keyoper=both&keyword=plate+crack&recsperpage=10&pscolumn=default&sortord=DESC&calledfrom=lkp

Revcollector and stampcrow thanks very much. I will search when I get home from work this evening. I thought it may of been a cracked plate but thought it was too big of and area. That's why I thought it may of been wiping of the plate.
Thanks again for time and knowledge.
Newby

Yup, that's a hideous crack. Here's another 71L18. The crack extends a bit into 72L18.

Classic coins that is almost mirrored to mine. Your cancel is on the right and mine the left.
Thanks for sharing.

Newby

Yeah! Your cancel has more bars than mine. Interesting.

They look the same. I will have to count the lines. What type of bar cancel is it?

Hey Classic coins I also notice yours is more of an orange and I guess mine is a dull red?
Would you know where I could print a copy of I guess a template of all the recuts and lines? I've seen it somewhere but just can't remember where maybe it was on here at the forum. It reminds me of the die design of the one cent Franklin?

Stampcrow thank you!
Newby

Mine is a deeper dull red. I specialize in these colors, but mostly on the 1851-57 3-cent imperforates. I'm not as good with the perforated colors.

Your image comes across as claret-ish to me, but it's impossible for me to tell what the true color is, because I don't know how accurately your scanner reproduces colors.

Classic Coins what you see on the monitor is what it looks like in hand.

Whose monitor?

My monitor but thats doesn't mean that the pic on his monitor looks as the same as mine. Sorry about that. Thanks for refreshing my memory on that stampcrow.