Domestic Dispute! Help Put Out The Fire! Scott 482A

hi all, im trying to identify this stamp imperf obviously flat plate no watermark. the color color comes through the back as well. my wife thinks it is a 482a , I think its just 482. please help us solve this domestic dispute!! :)

482 ... the shading around the toga button on type Ia is much stronger. I once submitted what I thought might be a Scott 500 type Ia for certification only to discover that it was just a well struck 499 type I. I did eventually locate a 500 and could then discern the difference between the type I & Ia.

thank you JL. such a help!

sorry about the upside down pic!

Happy Stamping!

I'm just impressed that this is a topic you can have an argument with your spouse about!

Here's a 482a...

disi, do you own that one?

For what it's worth, one of the members of this community, DID find a 482A, over 30 years ago, when he was a teenager, then rode home with it on his bicycle.....pretty amazing in itself that a teenager (and IIRC, he was 14 or 15), would be able to recognize the type Ia.....and he just sold a 78c that he found in a Siegel sale about a year (maybe 2) ago.

So, although we tend to snicker when these questions are asked, but there are always chances that these rarities can be found....

Hey Ckirby, also look at the difference in the color of the two different stamps.

I went through a cigar box of over 10,000 different unsorted and unchecked 2c reds almost 30 years ago--- perfed, watermarked and typed every one of 'em. I found 2 500's, both used, and the first look I took at them, they absolutely jumped off of the table at me....everything else was bright carmine, and the Ia's are a deep rose shade, which is unlike any other of the 2c reds. Yours is that deep, and heavily inked carmine shade.

The rose is much softer.....

Hope this is helpful, and that you find one!
Ray

Raymac... nopers... I wish... old saved Siegel image I use for reference

Helpful! Thank you for all the feedback