Americana Series

BUmping this up Cuz Im Cataloging this era.
Scott 1591 the Capitol Dome 9c is shown in my album to have a grey paper and white paper varieties.
My question is; Held side by side, is the paper difference obvious? All of my copies seem to be either greyish or greenish paper. Cant recall ever seeing a white paper variety of this stamp.

I'm picking this off the top of my head. I don't have any references available right now. I think the white paper variety is from a booklet. The difference with the gray paper variety is pretty obvious--you'll know you have a white paper variety.

Hope this helps.

Robert

I suspect the album is referring to the stamp (1591) from a traditional pane (grey paper) versus the booklet pane varieties (1590 and/or 1590A), the latter is shown below:

Makes sense, I've seen this pair before, but my album doesn't show it that way, just in singles. I'll have to add the pair to the page.
Thanks!

There were actually 4 different stamps depicting the 9-cent capitol dome. 1591 (pane) & 1616 (coil) are the ones with a gray background. 1590 (perf 11x10.5) & 1590A (perf 10x9.75) are from booklets and have a white background. 1590 & 1590A can be found paired with 1623 & 1623B. Each booklet pane had one 9-cent stamp & 7 13-cent stamps.

Ok, another query; I have a 1598 with perfs at 11.2 x 11.2, Now my catalog Has 1596 at 11.2 but the McHenry flag is is to be 11x10.5, and doesn't show 11x11.
My Album Shows a spot for Perf 11, and 11x10.5


Maybe its a 1597?

Let's take it further: According to my Scott's catalog, 1598 was issued only in booklets and all stamps have one or two straight edges. The stamp you show has perfs on all edges. I suspect what you have is actually a 1597. The Scott catalogue doesn't state what the perfs are on the 1597, so I presume that the 11.2 carries from the 1596. However, my Brookman catalogue says the 1597 has 11 perf.

Remember, when no confusion can arise, Scott tends to round off perf measurements. Perhaps Brookman does a similar thing. So 11.2 can become 11. Although I read my Scott the same as Alan B ... the 11.2 from 1596 applies to 1597 as well. Since Durland's perf measurements tend to be more precise, I checked my 2008 catalog. Only to discover that Durland neglected to give perf measurements for this issue.

My 2008 Scott Specialized says 1597 is a 10x10, with no other perf varieties.
Im gonna go with the 1597 identification.
Thanks again

I think if you look a little closer you'll find that your Scott catalogue's reference to "10x10" is actually referring to the number of stamps in a pane as in "Plates of 460 subjects (20x23) in panes of 100".

Alan B

Ah, yes, after looking again I see you are right. Easy to mistake at almost midnight. :)

My collection.



Jackie

Wow, I remember all of those. My mom cut them off of her envelopes for me when I was a kid.