parks, welcome. This question is frequently asked here, so consider searching the forum for prior discussions of the same issue, many of which show side-by-side image scan examples of different #11 shades. Those threads also will explain that accurate identification here is virtually impossible because of differences in how computer monitors display colors, and how your camera or scanner was calibrated.
Showing the whole cover also complicates matters. The human eye is biased by the color of the surrounding paper. It would be better to crop this or make a high-res scan of only the stamp.
My vote is claret. Here are some examples.
http://www.usphila.com/us/stamp/pri...tt-11-page-1There are other online resources specifically for this issue.
If this issue is important to you, you may need to send the cover for expertization, or compare the stamp to known expertized examples of other shades that are in the reference collection of an expert, dealer or collector.
Posted 07/03/2015 2:46 pm
