Some New Revenue Acquisitions

Been a while since anyone has posted any new acquisitions, and in all honesty I haven't been working on my revenues lately; needed to change things up a bit.

However, I have just picked a few interesting items out of an APS circuit and from an inexpensive ebay bulk lot. None of these items are worth very much, but interesting nonetheless.


A nice bank handstamp, note the small plate scracth at upper right.




An example of a bleached portrait. This was how people would try to fake inverted centers: bleach out the black and reprint it inverted.




Neat embossed seal with a musical lyre at the center. From wikipedia:

A maennerchor is 'the name given to German social clubs, primarily in the northeastern United States, Pennsylvania in particular. The earliest forms of these clubs where singing societies that perpetuated traditional choral music, both German and German-American culture, providing Gemuetlichkeit for new immigrants.'






A stamp with 3 jumbo margins in search of a fourth. Note the guide line across the top.




Another 3-margin jumbo. Not readily apparent from the front, but it is a silk paper. Too bad about the creases.




I've seen examples of dark plate wash on some of the early 3-cent 1st issue revenues, but this is the first time I've seen a 2-cent stamp this dark. The paper is very thin, almost translucent.




And last, an abdolutely ginormous circular handstamp. I'd love to see a full strike on a multiple or document!

Some of the two cent part perfs come with such strong plate wash, such as the Playing Cards. I'm not sure that is a plate scratch on the USIR, it might be the remains of a guideline.

Yeah, you're right. I think occasionally on the Proprietary pert perf as well? I've not seen a perforated 2-center this dark though.

They show up occasionally. They just got lazy.

I'm interested in that R112 cancel. Would that be BALTIMORE BASE BALL?

Interesting possibility. Back then it was indeed spelled as two words, and that bottom right character does have the same characteristics as the L at top. Am searching Google for images of Baltimore teams from that era. Nothing with that font style yet.

Confirming that Baltimore had baseball as early as the 1860s.

Page 18 of the following book shows a revenue-stamped document from the Baltimore Base Ball Club, but no identifiable cancel.

https://books.google.com/books?id=k...870s&f=false

Dollars to donuts southpaw is right. Nice deduction! Not to mention super cool cancel.

Seems more likely to be an I, M or N then an L, but it is certainly possible.

But look at the L in BALTIM.... It's identical. Plus, what would the word be if it was an I, M, or N?

BANK perhaps? But Base Bank would be an odd name.

For sure. I meant what could the word be considering that it follows "BASE." I think "BALL" is far more likely than anything else, especially considering the document shown in the Google book you linked to. Even though that document doesn't show a cancel, it does show that second issue revenue stamps were being used on BASE BALL documents.

Here are some of my recent acquisitions: a couple of documents with first issue revenues; some insurance cancels; a couple of miscellaneous cancels; and a margin imprint capture.

HUGE margin imprint capture. Love it!

Rev, going back to your 70 cent on silk paper. More than ,ikely the crease is from the document being folded, is this not desired on revenue stamps even knowing how the crease was formed?

Regardless of what caused the crease, it is still a fault thus reducing the value and/or desirability.

So you're saying don't remove these #9786;




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