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Thanks (again) Don. I collect Transportation Coils an bought complete rolls of precancels from the PO. And they were mint when I got them an they must still be mint because I can use them on my mail,
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Don, buddy, I apologize, I did not read your post correctly.
I had no idea that a "ACM" was marked at the post office before sale/release...GREAT INFO.
Just like "perfins" before delivery to a customer
Soooooo, if that stamp rogdcam had was released from the post office and no scribble on it and someone scribbled on it after sale..Would it now be called a USED stamp..???
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wert, I would say no. To me "used" means having performed postal or fiscal duty. Not the same as "canceled," which encompasses such phenomena as CTO's and favor cancels. Used stamps are canceled, but not necessarily vice versa. A NY Provisional with initials but no evident postmark or killer cannot be considered used. |
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dudley
I think you are correct...To be defined as USED, a stamp does have to access the postal process.
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It may of course be my scanner, or possibly bleed from the magenta ink, but if I screw around with the image a distinct green hue appears on GW's head towards the top right. ...wonder if its a washed cancel... |
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Probably worth noting that The Scott price for unused is for stamps with the ACM initials. So for most US collectors, a stamp with the initials and no cancel is unused. Argue semantics all you want, but for this particular stamp, if there is no cancel, it is unused by definition. |
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Classic stamps are/were frequently removed from covers when they have managed to slip through the mail's without being cancelled. They are still quite USED albeit uncancelled. |
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both points raised have merit but put it under a good uv lamp or vsc6000 and that should answer the question about an additional or removed cancel. |
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If this is considered an "unused" stamp, what would one be considered prior to being initialed? And do uninitialed copies exist? |
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| Edited by spain_1850 - 05/13/2019 07:36 am |
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