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All Forums Category: US Stamps and Covers Discussions Forum: US Classic Stamps - As Issued and Used

These Washington/Franklins . . .452 Or 490 Or?

 
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Oracle of Delphi
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Posted 02/28/2020   12:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Oracle of Delphi to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Have problems figuring out some of these W/F stamps. This pair is perf 10 unwatermarked. Are they 452 or 490 or something else? How does one tell? Is this technically a line pair or is the color line just something else from the rotary press printing process? Flaws, so not concerned with whether they're worth anything, just identifying them correctly.

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452 is single line watermark.
so if you have a no watermark coil perf 10 vertically, then you are talking 490.

http://www.stampsmarter.com/feature...rank_ID.html is a big help to working through identification of these.

And yes, that is a joint line pair.
Good margins on that pair btw. nice.
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Oracle of Delphi
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Thank you for the info and the tip on that great tool on StampSmarter. Continuing with my efforts to catalog my duplicates for sale, I had the one below logged as a 429 with perf 10 but my poor eyesight can't make out whether that's a watermark or what. That's the best picture I can provide.




Any assistance that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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Oracle of Delphi
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Finally, one last W/F logged as a 334. Perf 12; what's that watermark (gotta do something about these cataracts of mine). Is it a 377 instead?




Thank you again.
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Last one, the 4 cent Washington, sure looks like a perf 12, double lined watermark, flat plate 334 to me. Can't tell about the watermark on the 6 cent, perf 10. Gotta be a single line 429, I guess. Both are very nice! I'd be a buyer for both.
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... I'd be a buyer for both.


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Oops. Sorry.
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