Help - Is This A Scott # 1 Or 4 Or A 1tci....???

Hi guys

I am really having a hard time trying to find out if this is a Scott #1 or #4 or #1TCi.

Any help will help.

WERT, we need to see the back to determine if this is an laid paper (#1) or wove (#4)

Sorry Gilles le timbre...Here is the back of the stsmp.

Can we see the front?

WERT, unlikely this is a #1. I think you got a nice #4 in your hand.

Sorry Gilles le timbre..Every time I change one the other changes to..Please be patient.

FRONT...

I have to agree with Gilles on this one. I think that's definitely a #4 with wove paper. And a pretty nice one too.

FYI in future when you change or add photos to your thread, make sure they are named differently otherwise it will just replace the image you already have. But then, I guess you've figured that out.

Ya jamesw...I went from an idiot to almost an idiot....
Thanks jamesw and Gilles le timbre for all your help....4 it is..

P.S. - You think that is a nice stamp, I thought is was not in very good shape..!!

All stamps are graded relative to what one can be usually expected to see in a certain time frame's or era's stamps.

The colour is great, the centering is good, in that it is well balanced and not too cut close on one side, the cancel is somewhat heavy and smudgey but does not obsure the main design feature, the beaver, mostly the paper is in good condition.

All that was just a general impression I had. I am no expert in these at all.

It is how the stamps strikes you, or presents, as you first see it. Your first impression. Over time, after viewing and grading or sizing up many stamps you get a feel for what is a good stamp and what is a not so good.

You wish a certain thing was a bit more this way or that. Or a certain feature over balances the whole stamps. Sometimes a feature that is quite strong and seemingly over balancing will be balanced out by another strongly impacting feature and so the whole balances out, leaving you with a general impression or feeling.

Oh, I like the stamp also, has a few faults but leaves a strong impression.

You took the words right out of my....well, fingers, puzzler. I think the stamp is terrific. ,While trimmed close, it doesn't interfere with the design at all, the back looks clean with no really severe problems and the cancel is strong but not too overpowering. And I certainly don't have one! so I think it's terrific. (if it's presence in your collection disgusts you, wert, I'll send you my address and take care of it for you, no charge!)

And I certainly didn't use the word 'idiot' to describe you or your computer skills. If that were the case I'm sure we all would qualify at some point. Me more than some.

I agree with the above. Actually clearer stronger image than most 15's , You can clearly see the sun through the clouds of the cancel and I'd never noticed that the cross on top of the crown breaks through the top framelines. Tons of varieties on these but nothing jumps out but I don't have the book out. All in all a very nice lead stamp in any collection ( assuming 1-2-3 are out of the question)

very nice stamp wert

jamesw...I was calling myself an idiot, because my computer skills are probably better than presents itself...I, should have called and saved it with a different file name....

Ahhhh...If I get another jamesw I WILL send you one...

nitrolures
jhlovell
Puzzler
Gilles le timbre
And last but not least..jamesw...Thanks guys for setting me straight to what I really have and not what I thought I had...