Can Someone Explain How To Collect Farley's Follies 1935 Blocks??

How can you tell the difference from a block of #751 vs a block of #769? Do you need to have the wide margin on the #769?

I'm new to stamps and find this all fascinating!! I love reading all the comments and getting a better understanding of stamps. My father passed away and had a number of stock books filled with lots of old stamps. This past year, I've really enjoyed trying to ID and understand the stamps. Some are no brainers but others are really confusing. I have about 30 old Franklin's in really good, used condition. I'm trying to learn how to ID but man, its HARD (for me at least). I stole my daughter's microscope so I could really see differences......Didn't really help!! Anyway, thank you to all of you with knowledge and your desire to comment and help people. I find this a great way to stay connected with my father. He always had the passion but never found the time. Then time ended. I want to leave my son with a stamp collection he'll know was started by his grandfather and finished by his father.

I am a US newbie, and find the special printings confusing.

Here are my Sc#750 and #751 FYI
Mint unhinged, BLACK BLOB is on the protecting mount, not the sheet.

The 1935 Special Printing are easy to understand. There are twenty issues in this set of special printings which correspond to the stamps issued in 1933 and 1934. They are listed in the special printings in pretty much the same order they appear as regularly issued stamps. The exception is the souvenir sheets, which are grouped together at the end of the special printings. See the chart below for correlations

Regular issue special printing
727 752
733 753
737 754
739 755
740-749 National Parks 756-765
730 766
731 767
735 768
751 769
750 770
CE1 771

With the exception of Scott numbers 752 and 753, the 1935 special printings are all imperforate. This is what distinguishes them from the regular issues.

The souvenir sheets have to show part of the adjacent souvenir sheet or extended selvage to be considered one of the special printings.

I wrote a long series of posts on the National Parks and 1935 Special Printings on this site. You can find it at https://goscf.com/t/54752

Mystic Stamp Company sells a "Farley Follies" album. Actually, its just the pages - 104 of them. They provide for all the different types of Farley such as line pair, gutter block, etc. I have it and it makes for a nice collection.

Jack Kelley

Extraordinary...Thank you.
I now know what I have.

Imperforate regulars.



Cancelled, Austin Texas 2001
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Don

Farley Imperforates

Everyone is anxiously awaiting the official
figures giving the number issued of the
Farley stamps, after which prices will
undoubtedly advance.

The consensus of opinion is that the best
stamp will turn out to be the 16¢ Airmail
Special Delivery, the one that was the most
despised and which many purchasers unloaded
immediately after removing the position blocks.
Next in scarcity will follow the higher
values of the Parks issue.

All ads offering the position blocks
disappeared from the papers two or three
weeks before the deadline, June 15, when
the stamps were withdrawn from sale and
it will be interesting to observe prices
when quotations reappear.

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column Stamps
July 13, 1935

Posted this back in February. https://goscf.com/t/59076

As a precaution, there are several stamps in rod222's 1-page display which are not provably special printings. The absence of gum on the 2 perforated stamps is not proof, nor are the 1 cent and 3 cents Parks necessarily from Special printings.

I just have the cross gutter and line blocks of 4 in my album. I don't see the need to also have the horizontal and vertical pairs.

Philazilla, while you are technically correct that the one and three cents are not provably from the National Parks series, the reality is that the stamps shown would never be considered anything else.

To be considered from the reissued souvenir sheets they would require either an inscription and oversized margin or a pair with a gutter between. Without that, they ARE the National Parks, Scott 756 or 758, respectively.

John,
I defaulted to assume all were not special printings at all.