Scott #63 Color Variations

A page of Scott 63 shades:



Closer crops:







1st full row, 2nd from left has a PF cert as pale blue.

1st full row, 4th from left (immediately to the right of the specimen) has a PF cert as a 63b dark blue.

Can anyone please inform me what shade are the 2nd and 3rd stamps on the 2nd full row? Powder blue?

Douglas,

are you asking if any are ultramarine versus blue?

I was not thinking about either being an ultramarine. But whatever they are, I have not yet found other examples on this site, nor Siegel power search.

I found them on ebay and immediately noted the unusual color.

I wonder what a cert authority might call such a variety?

Here is a closer view of the two stamps with this unusual shade:

I don't think its an "unusual shade"-- they are either pale blue or ultramarine (but I guess I consider ultramarine shade is considered "unusual"). I favor pale blue or light blue (or some other shade of blue, but not dark blue)

Pastel Blue.

I know of one other copy. It has a New York cancel, as one of the two already posted to this thread.

The stamp above the one to the left has a cert as "pale blue" which is different than these pastel blue copies.

I would love to have the one on the right next to my 63b.

Essay,

Is Richard Drews' exhibit online? I thought it was but I couldn't find it last I looked.

Douglas, the right hand stamp to me is most attractive.

Stampmaster

In both stamps, the bust background is muddied, grillwork does not show. Over inked pale blue?

The Drews exhibit of 1861 material is online at the Collectors Club of Chicago website. Here is a link to it: http://www.collectorsclubchicago.org/drews-1.php



Not much point in quibbling over close parallels in color between online images. In truth they might appear identical viewed together under the same light, but online, not so much. Or vice versa.

I have seen something like the shade you are highlighting, and to me it looked "powder blue;" i.e. with a higher level of white in it than usual. I think the term "pastel blue" conveys a similar notion. Interestingly my eyes gravitated to those two when I first saw your array.

I have a few of these "milky blue" Scott 63's in my reference collection. They're often submitted as ultras but generally get certified as bright blue, even though they're noticeably different (closer to ultra than bright blue, IMO). Most all of the examples I've seen have that same appearance (lack of detail/fuzzy impression), possibly due to the viscosity or other characteristic of that particular ink.

BTW, you said that it was a page of Scott 63's. I'd bet a nickel that the middle stamp in that last 5-stamp row is a Scott 102 re-issue...

Both of these powder-pastel blues are definitely over-inked.

"BTW, you said that it was a page of Scott 63's. I'd bet a nickel that the middle stamp in that last 5-stamp row is a Scott 102 re-issue."

Correct. I stand corrected.

"I have a few of these "milky blue" Scott 63's in my reference collection. They're often submitted as ultras but generally get certified as bright blue, even though they're noticeably different (closer to ultra than bright blue, IMO). Most all of the examples I've seen have that same appearance (lack of detail/fuzzy impression), possibly due to the viscosity or other characteristic of that particular ink."

Please post a scan!

BTW do any of yours have New York cancels?