Canal Zone Anybody?

Yes, it can. Whatever you are referencing is incorrect. People mistake the OP's stamp for the very valuable Scott 15 all of the time but the typeface is incorrect. Read what I wrote and do some homework. Panama 81 is the base stamp for CZ 14 and it comes in many flavors including both words reading up which is, as I said, Panama 81a.

Canal Zone Stamps by Plass, Brewster & Salz is incorrect? ok

Here's the certificate for my #15. PANAMA (13mm long) reading up on both sides.

Uboatnut - I know. The "Panama" typeface is different though. Compare the two. Yours IS a 15. The other one is not.

different "8cts" font than in the stamp image of jomic-3139.

uboatnut, congrats on your CZ#15! I was hoping that my stamp was a # 15 but after consulting Scott's Specialized 2020 catalog , again, I now believe it to be a # 18. What do you all think?

Rogdcam - Agreed. I just wanted him to see the #15 you referenced. My #14 has PANAMA (15mm long) reading up on the left and down on the right.

For an in-depth discussion of the 1904-06 50c brown's overprintings, I recommend pages 14-16 in "Stamps of the Canal Zone" by Wm. Evans MD, published in 1916 by Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co. It details virtually all of the various OPs occurring during the 5 printings of this series.

CZ 15, 18 and 19 have the word PANAMA reading upwards on both sides.

jomic, you are correct, the stamp is CZ 18.

Ok, darn, #18 it is then. Only about a $4,700 difference!

CZ15 can be had for a lot less than that. I'm working with a CZ expert to add #15 to my collection. Had a look at one last year that didn't quite make the grade.

I found these canal zone stamps in my collection of beer stamps. I know the first several are A35 AND 36. I am having trouble assigning catalog numbers to the overprints. Is the single overprint a B2 and what about the others? Any value to these stamps? I appreciate any help!

dtreter, what catalog are you using? Your listings ( A35, A36 etc ) do not make sense


Peter

I am using Scotts Specialized huge catalog, 2020. I guess I don't know how to read it and I just bought it on eBay last week. It listed them under Canal Zone as 105 A35 and 106 A36, page 1097. The other note that I listed as B2 was on page 9 of this forum thread but I can't find that or my other notes in the Scott's catalog. Any help would be appreciated.