3 Columbian Varieties To Look For.

How about calling it the "Shark bitten S"

Balf

Tom I just checked out my covers and found these the cleft hat variety and it's not to bad at all,this was on one cover also a closed "C" on two five cent stamps and tied to these are four three cent stamps one of which has a broken three talk about luck .
Had to hand hold the microscope as the covers were to big for the scope rest so a couple of photo's are a little bit fuzzy.





sorry mate I didn't mean to steal your thread

Harry.....


Great job with holding the scope....very decent pictures......and finding these varieties on cover is a nice prize. And don't worry about using this/any thread to show your pictures.......the hobby now depends on pictures especially now that we can show everything in color. Remember those worthless black & white lists of numbers & symbols that we used to use back in the stone age ?.......and we were expected to accept whatever was sent ! .....whether we liked it or not !

......one picture is worth a thousand words......not sure about everyone but, I prefer seeing the pictures.

Harry....


I checked a few covers this morning and found a nice surprise.....

That's sweet Tom I did the same and rechecked the covers,on this cover



I came up with this



This is the cover with the cleft hat



And this is the cover with the five cent closed "C's".



Well mate that's about the last Columbian I had to look at,I did enjoy looking for variety's so thanks Tom for starting this thread.

Nice covers Harry........

Here's another one of mine......

I do like your cover Tom nice one mate,did you check the five cent stamp for a closed "C" you never know your luck .

Harry.....

I checked them pretty well earlier and only found the one with the broken corner frame line.


Did a quick search and found this.......
http://cgi.ebay.com/231-Var-SLURRED...RT_W0QQitemZ160284918616QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2551b9c358

Interesting 231 variety mate yes it would be nice to find one of these among the copies,I had a look around his shop and he's got a Scott #905b Fremont Ohio precancel with an APS cert that he claims is a rare color,though not Fremont I have three #905-71 precancels the same color .


regards