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Actually just found another. It surely is a pretty way to obliterate the image on the stamp!  |
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Pillar Of The Community
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The 2 overprints are on the same stamp the first you posted has color change. First op Scott 106 Second op Scott 115.
Stamp 1 Scott 10 (green) 2 others (2 & 13) gray green diff wmk, no. 2 ?, No. 3 Scott 20, No. 4 Scott 48, No. 5 Scott 104 |
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| Edited by Russ - 01/29/2011 6:20 pm |
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Thanks! So the first overprint is supposed to be the color of the second? Is this type of color change common? Due to wood fibers or? |
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Barb, I don't know how common it is with these stamps. A lot of this can be from moisture or sunlight. The center of the color change in darker with the bluish gray tint. I really like the ornate overprint. Nice stamps thanks for posting. |
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Well, on the subject of overprints and fancy... here is another from Cuba. Is there a premium/ or take off because it was not a square strike on the stamp??  |
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I think your 2nd stamp, the 4 cuartos red, is actually a Spanish stamp (1855 SG55a perhaps).
Stanley Gibbons mentions that the surcharges on the Alfonso XII 1883 issues exist in 4 different patterns. |
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Thank you 22Crows. It is interesting you say that, because the album it is in calls it Cuba under Spain. |
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22crows, Thanks thats why I couldn't find it in Cuba. Scott list 5 different patterns for the 1883 issue. |
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Then there is a differnce of opinion?
Byrum has them as Cuban telegraph stamps.Oopsies! I misread the thread. (It can happen you know  ) Cuban telegraph. Gratitude to donald byrum.  |
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| Edited by rod222 - 01/29/2011 9:01 pm |
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The last one is not listed in my Scott (1960) and I believe it is a telegraph (telegrafos) Scott lists the other 2 surcharged stamps are regular postage. |
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