Anyone Interest In Relief Breaks

Hi all

If anyone is interested in relief breaks, there is a very good resource in French's book. Cloudy would discuss these and help me identification of the various reliefs.

These are cheap and the chase and identification are easy.

Stampmaster

Stampmaster, I would be interested in a discussion about relief breaks. Never too old to learn something new.

Ken

Hi Ken

Do you have access to "Encyclopedia of Plate Varieties on U.S. Bureau Printed Postage Stamps by Loran C. French"? If not, go to your library and see if they are take part in the Inter-Library Loan Program, then request this book. Starting on page 70, Cloudy discusses and diagrams the different relief, and relief breaks associated with the different reliefs.

Warning, you will not get rich chasing these, there isn't a market for them.

Its more of a fun thing to do.

By the way, if you have good eye sight, after studying these you be seeing double. (Just kidding)

Stampmaster

Yes, lots of fun! The French book is awesome but a bit pricey now. I believe it was originally serialized in the U.S. Specialist, 1970s? If so, perhaps a membership in usstamps.org and get the chapters online.

Thanks, Stampmaster. I'll have to go check our little podunk library and see if they can accommodate.

I'm not worried about getting rich, nor am I really worried about value. I find collecting is releasing and relaxing. I haven't a clue what I'm doing, but I find the discovery is worth all of the effort.

That double vision thing brought me back to the 70's! =)

Ken

Ken

Yes I agree, stamp collecting is releasing and relaxing. Also finding unrecognized plate varieties is also rewarding.

I do not agree when you said "I haven't a clue what I'm doing", Sir, you do know, and after learning something every day you will have more confidence. Does this makes sense? Not sure I could put into words what I meant to say.

Good luck at your local library. I live in a very small town in Nevada, even my library takes part in the inter library loan program.

I think I'm all out of extra copies of Cloudy's book, but I'll check to make sure. Now I'm not saying I have any extra copies, I had a few copies that Cloudy gave me, if I do have one we need to make arrangements to send you a copy.

My extra books are buried out in my workshop someplace. But will look.

Stampmaster

Ken

Sorry, the box I thought I might have an extra copy of Cloudy's book, did not find any extra copies. Only found extra mats that was used in his book.

Again, sorry.

Stampmaster

Stampmaster, thanks for the vote of confidence. One of the things I get a kick out of is reading these posts when folks are pontificating about stamps. Never ceases to amaze me! =)

I'll check the local library and see if they have or can get French's book.

Thanks.

ken

Hi Ken

I would scan a few examples, but without the information in Cloudy's book it would not look like much.

In addition my scan images, in order to make them large enough to see what is going on, they would be a bit blurred I'm thinking.

But I will offer to try scanning if you would like to see them?

Stampmaster

Stampmaster,

I'd like to see some scans. A bit blurry isn't really an issue, I can barely see past my nose these days! =)

Might give me an idea of what to look for. Is it a particular stamp or is there a range?

Thanks.

Ken

Moyock13, I'll do the scanning later this after noon. Its nap time for this old guy right now.

But I will scan some for you.

Stampmaster

Moyock13, OK here is what I promised, hope scans of stamps not too blurred. Arrows will point to the relief breaks (RB). I've also include 2 scans from the book.

If I were to recommend a starting collector interested in working with RBs, I'd suggest starting with Relief H which only occurred on 498's. 498's are cheap and easy to find.

I always check damaged stamps for RBs, even cheaper then!

On the scans arrows sometimes only point to one RB, there were more than one RB. Loading too many arrows would confuse the issue.

I'm sure other members will point out that I did not mark all the RBs, what can I say. You get the idea I hope.

RBs occurred on 405, 408, 424, 462, 481, 498

Enjoy, good luck in your stamp collecting adventures.

Stampmaster

Stampmaster, thank you. Went out of your way to provide this information. Greatly appreciated. Not sure I have any of these, 405, 408, 424, 462, 481, 498. But it gives me a place to expand! =)

Hi Moyock13, 498's are cheap and plenty of them around. The others are mostly cheap.

Of course used is better, but with a cancel that does not cover the areas you are interested in.

Good luck

Stampmaster