Scott 6B Or 8A? In Siegel Auction

Txstamp,

Thank you very much for your posts and great insight into the E relief stamps from plate 4 and 6b stamps. I'm more comfortable with the dynamic nature of philatelic study of these stamps and the controversy surrounding them.

I wish I won this stamp at auction, along with the other quasi 19b, then 20, then 22 specimen we discussed few months ago. They would be cool to place in album with all the controversy written about them!

I wonder if PF experts are reading this forum. Wish I could pick their brains as well on this. I agree that some scientific criteria should be used to discriminate between a Ic and IIIa. PF needs to take the lead here. Just an opinion should not be a criteria for a major Scott listing. Scott and PF can do better. Hopefully they will!!

But the controversy sure makes all this lots of fun, (as long as you aren't the buyer of a $20,000 pair that only would go for $4,000 at resale because an expert changes their mind)

The stamp at the start of this thread is a very pretty stamp, and well worth having. I agree. Plate 4 had numerous different appearances/impressions. I always liked the stamps with this general appearance. Quite attractive.

Its been a long time since I was well plugged into the stamp world. Maybe at some point I'll email the guy I was talking about earlier, who expertises at the PF (I'm sure he still does), and see what their current criteria is. I'm sure he could tell me, as the criteria is probably whatever he says it is (my guess).