So... Did The Scrounging Gods Favor Me A Second Time?

Ala the Penthouse Forum of days of yore:

"I never thought anything like this would happen to me..."

Some of you may recall my finding an R15e (2-cent USIR on green paper) in an ebay lot back in 2014 that turned out to be genuine. I submitted it to the Philatelic Foundation and it got a clear cert. I chronicled the events and did some rudimentary research compiling an R15e census:

http://www.revenue-collector.com/bl...140711.shtml


First, let me draw your attention to the following entries of the above census:

Siegel Auctions Sale 642, lot 82. October 12, 1983.




Siegel Auctions. The Philip Little Collection of U.S. Revenue Stamps, lots 586 and 587. February 13, 1962.




Note the cancels. All are from the same company: Coffin & Altemus, Philadelphia.

Fast forward to today. Over the past several years I've tossed common and/or damaged 1st-3rd issue revenues into a bin to eventually use as mixture fodder. I'm going through it now as I have someone who wants a large quantity of common revenues.

As I'm pawing through it, the stamp below catches my eye. The paper is not as vibrant a shade of green as the one I found in 2014, but the cancel is a dead ringer for the above, the cancel date is correct (1866), and the paper texture and thickness are correct.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of the 3 stamps above from the Siegel auctions, I would love to to know if any of them have ever received certs and to obtain high-resolution images for comparison.

What do you think... worth sending for a cert?

Lot 587 got a bad cert, #536013. Lot 586 has the wrong date, May of 1867. The paper on your example is not as thin as the other example, but it would have to be seen in hand to actually know whether it is or not.

I've got an email in to Brian. Per Richard, Brian was at Siegel in 1983 when lot 82 above was sold. I'm hoping that he remembers it.

He was there, but that was 34 years ago. At this point remembering it doesn't really prove much anyway. It's probably worth the $27 to send it.

love when RC is on the hunt and shares it with us on the board. Good reads and very informative.

Should have updated this thread earlier: it came back from the PF with a clean cert, so I've now found two of 'em. Since traded away.