Us: Scott Type A29, 1861 24c Washington. Help With Colors

Brian,

The 24c F grill isn't rare in and of itself, but it's tough to find decently centered and a lot of them have nasty, ragged perfs which really hurt their eye appeal IMO. Also, lots of them are faulty as an awful lot of them were used on packages as compared to earlier 24c stamps (by 1868 many foreign rates had gotten much cheaper). But that's relative, they're about as rare as a TRUE violet and finding a good steel blue with TRUE steel blue color in nice shape is easier than finding a really nice 99.

The 30c F grill isn't rare, the rate to France was still 15c and lots of them were used on sub 1-oz double rate covers to France. Again, centering is another matter.

The 90c F grill is a very tough stamp to find nice. On cover? LOL!

When you get a chance see if you can get a better scan of that one in the lot. It almost looks like a dark lilac from here, probably would be called a grey. It's too light to be a blackish violet from here (wouldn't that be nice haha).

Bill

I've always just filed these under the "to figure out someday" file. Anyone want to take a shot at these ?

Stallzer,

Nice stamps, with good centering and light cancels! I'm re-posting my #70/78 color set image so it's on the same page for comparison. Judging from the image, I would say your left stamp is 78B gray. The other two look like toned 70 red lilac, but either one could be 70a brown lilac. It's hard to be sure from the image because they look slighly discolored.

Wow Rileysan I love both the stamp lots you picked up! I need almost every one in the second lot {on the 2nd page}! If you upgrade any of those keep me in mind for the replacements! Great stuff! -Jeff

What color is this?

Fredc, it's a color changeling, that's not its original shade. It should be categorized as a Scott 78.

Collecting these shades is truly a challenging task. I recently purchased a 78c with recent certs from both the PF and PSE and the question I have is: where is the violet in blackish violet? To me, these two colors should be easy to see as they are on Scott 45. However, I don't know how you can do better than having a 78c where both the PF and PSE are in agreement?

Classic coin: it may be an image thing over the Internet, but the stamp you list as 70d does not jive with certified copies I have seen of that shade. Is your copy certified?

An older discussion, but I'd like to get an opinion on color for this stamp. Yes, it's reperfed on the right, but what shade do you see?

Gallejois, the image is too poor to judge shades. The paper on these stamps is hardly ever this white, and I imagine if some yellow was added to the image to get the natural paper tone the stamp color would shift towards a lilac shade.

I'm posting a pic that is adjusted to appear closer to what I see with my eyes.



Also, the paper is super thin.

I would thinking Scott 70c or 78–