Two Different Orange 1932 Washingtons

My wife and I just inherited a stamp collection passed down from two generations and are really enjoying it. We also bought a collection of stamps on ebay that had about 30,000 stamps in it. We found this Washington stamp that is identical to another one we have already placed in our book except this one is brown with slight orange tint and the other was all over orange. Is this the same or a different stamp.

Thanks

Steve

Thanks for joining us here at the forum!

The stamps I believe you are referring to are the Washington commemorative set of 1932. Yes they are different. The face value of the orange one is 10cents and the one you've shown in brown is 6cents.
Good Collecting & have fun with the collection.

Mike

Thank you for that response. We only have the one spot in our book and it had a picture of the orange one. I think we will have to start some blank pages to supplement the pre printed pages that came in our catalogs as we are finding stamps form the eras that are not listed like this one.

Thanks again,

Steve

That is a nice looking bullseye cancel AKA a socked on the nose cancel. What kind of World Wide albums are you using? Someone may be able to suggest a good place to get blank pages to fit your album or supplements.

Hi Steve.....


.......actually........your brownish 6 cent is a color changeling....usually considered a damaged stamp. It is stamp #711 issued in red orange, 1932.

And....welcome to the club.

Here are some pictures of the album. The first page starts at 1847 and does have some blank spaces on it and we are filling them up fast with stamps from 1847-1899.

Thanks for all your help,
Steve

Steve,
you may want to pencil in next to each stamp the Scott # for easy quick reference. You could put this under the hinged or mounted stamp if you don't want it showing. Also you might want to do the same with each sorted bag/envelope of duplicates you have, if you haven't done so already. This will save you much time later when you go back to them, especially with the look-a-likes.

This is a fairly common occurrance on all stamps originally printed in orange in this era. The other one that I know of that acts the same is the 6c Garfield in the series issued in the mid-20s until the Prexie set came out in 1938. I have seen instances where the 9c Jefferson in the same set will do the same, also.

Good idea from stamperdude. Should be your major focus. A lot of work but you'll go nuts without it.
Allan

It sounds like you guys are pretty well hooked. If you are going to collect US stamps, you might want to consider buying a Scott's Specialized US Catalog. It will answer most of your questions and be an amazing source of general information on collecting.

It seems that yellow and orange are very susceptible to changing color. Must be something about the chemistry of the pigments which produce the yellows and oranges. I've noticed the yellow 10 cent Washingtons from the Washington/Franklins (US 1908-1922) come in a variety of colors probably due to the pigments oxidizing.