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Thought I would share this cover. Unfortunately, no contents. I don't know if this refers to Hon Stephen Salisbury II or III. Very prominent in the history of Worcester, Mass.  |
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It is a very nice clean cover with a clearly readable cancel. I might be of another opinion on the quality of the stamp though. It is certainly clean and relatively fresh looking but it is very off center with the perforations on the left eating into the image. Most collectors pay fuller prices for stamps that are nicely centered with clear white margins on all four sides of the image. |
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Nice cover. When it comes to covers, stamp centering I think is less of an issue. Well-centered 25's are very scarce and is one reason why the catalogue value is so high for what is a pretty common stamp. Same goes for the 25A and the 26A except that even poorly centered 25A's are fairly scarce. It's too bad there are no contents because I wonder if this is an 1857 usage?
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I have many 25's but I am not sure if I have a single one with "clear white margins on all four sides". It isn't that I don't care about stamp centering but I am usually paying more attention to the printed portion of the stamp. If anybody has any four margin 25's they should post them here. |
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I am with Winston on this one, here is a multiple from Siegel  As the nice block above shows, the design barely fit within the perfs. Even if a stamp was perfectly centered, I am not sure it would have 4 clear margins. Don |
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With the 26 and 26A not having top and bottom frame lines, it's somewhat easier to find better centering. This 26 I have on a cover isn't bad. It's a bit of an optical illusion though. It shows nice white all around, but... The top perfs actually do just about touch the image. But it looks like a nice wide margin due to the perf holes being intact.  |
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sinclair2010, I figure it's a bottom row. Also it has an engravers slip lower third of right frame line. Not sure if the dot of color in the 'O' of postage is also a tell. |
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It's too bad there are no contents because I wonder if this is an 1857 usage? sinclair2, my Scott catalog lists, Feb 28 as earliest documented use. That was from plate 7. |
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Yup. I don't know why but I was thinking your cover was on the other side of the EKU by a little.. |
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If anybody has any four margin 25's they should post them here. I don't think I've ever seen a #25/25A with the design clear of the perfs all around, but the Siegel example posted by Don comes real close. As Stampcrow's 100R9 indicates, it should be possible, but I would guess only at a corner position. I posted this in another thread; a #26A from my collection:  |
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