Show Your US 1851-57 Imperforate Stamps

Gary, yes that makes sense both visually and in context.

This sound, four-margin #10A, position 54L0, was a nice find in a bulk lot of 64 3-cent imperforates I acquired a few years ago:

Hi Classic Coins --

Nice 54L0 -- and always nice to find an orange brown in a group of dull reds !!

Regards // ioagoa

Follow-up to my post of 10/16/20 - here is a scan of the back of the stamp I believe to be an 89R4 type 1c.


and another scan of the front



Both were done with my Canon scanner as my V600 keeps giving me an error message.

#11A sheet margin position 60L3 tied by a bright red Oct 18 Lancaster PA CDS on a cover to Philadelphia:

Great stamp, cancel and cover CC! I envy your collection!

Thanks, Laurie. You've shown some excellent items too!

I have never looked for an answer to this, except for now, but I have wondered it for a while. Lancaster is one of those green-cancel towns, and the green cds looks similar, of not the same, to the red cds that CC is showing on his cover. What is the significance of the colors? Is this significance unique to Lancaster? Or did they simply use whatever was handy? Or did they run out of red, and have green, at some point?

Nice stamp on a neat cover, CC!

Thanks, mootermutt.

Those are very interesting questions. I wonder if there was a quick transition of cancel color, like there was with the Philadelphia blue-to-black cancels.

Here's a re-post of an olive green or light green Lancaster cancel, just to get them both on the same page. The position is 100R3, with a fingerprint at the bottom from handling the sheet by the corner at the printer.

This stamp was previously posted on page 25 of this thread with two other shades of green cancels for color comparison (link below):

http://goscf.com/t/72775&whichpage=25#649122



(edited to remove "Pennsylvania")

I just noticed, the letters of the green Lancaster cancel are smaller and farther separated from the rim than the letters of the red cancel. The feet of the letter A are much closer in the green cancel than in the red cancel.

I searched some auctions sites today and found that both red and green cancel colors were used in Lancaster PA in 1851, and green was also used in Lancaster PA in 1854.

There are currently three #11A covers with green Lancaster PA cancels listed in the postal history category on eBay, and all of them appear to have the olive shade like on the 100R3 I showed above. From this, I am confident that this cancel is from Pennsylvania.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...r&_sacat=689

caper - your 1c stamp is 89R4, Ty Ic.

The plating mark from 90R4 with the vertical scratch by ornament F+G id's it.

Of course the stamp's value as a type is minimal, since it doesn't show all of the Type characteristics.

...and on the 89R4, I should add that I didn't sit down to study what is visible on the stamp to see that it qualifies as a Ic, but for now just blindly took Neinken's word for it, since the position is not listed as a swing position.

Anyway, refer to my last post about the type characteristics.

Here's an 11A from position 32R2L on a 25 Oct 1852 cover with a blue Lancaster Pennsylvania cancel passed to me by a friend:

On a related note, here is a #11A (63R3) on cover with a black Lancaster Massachusetts CDS: