There Must Be One Specialist In Cancels And Specimen In The US Stampcommunity........

For almost a week my topic is seen but nobody knows the answer? Still unanswered :-(. Or is the stamp so unique that I can have an early retirement?
Anybody knows something about the strange pink cancel and is it a real specimen or one of those like mr. Fournier with his Nova Scotia specimen fake overprints?

Is there anybody out there? :-)

I'm "clueless"... but you should probably post this in a more appropriate section.

More likely to have a "BOB" expert see this, and comment, if posted in the U.S. Back of Book section.

I didn't see your original post of this stamp. So..., I don't know what your question is.
My question would be, "why the purple circle"? From what I know, these stamps were a special printing. It would have been issued without gum.

Oke, I am gonna try that, thanks stampcrow :-)

My first thought is that this looks like a stain from one of the old wax seals that were used to seal envelope flaps in the 1800s. Is that a small chunk of wax on the back of your stamp?

Kevin, we tried helping you in the original post. But you have to realize that somebody can do anything to a stamp - sometimes it is impossible to tell what happened. It is most likely not an official cancel - more likely some accidental happening. An early retirement on this thing would be a pipe dream!
By the way, it keeps on looking very familiar to me, but I figured out why. I collect Japanese Occupation of the Netherlands Indies, and it looks like some of those overprints. But I do not believe this is a Rising Sun!

Peter

As I said in the other thread you started on the same subject (which is a forum 'no-no'), my opinion is that this is a modern purple glue dot. Google purple glue dot. It is very round, it soaked through the paper, this would make it unusual for a late 1870s cancel.

Sure, I'd list it on ebay for a bazillion dollars and describe it as the rare purple dot variety.