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Is that the experimental orange brown?

Another patient.

Features:
- Relief B
- two inner lines

That's not much to go on. I figured this to be either plate 2L or plate 3. Nothing came up searching through 2L, but I found 96L3 as a possible match.

I think too, I can't see any other remarkable thing about it.

Classic Coins, you told me you plated this #11A, and I wonder if you plated it as 80L2L. I worked on plating it and NicholasC helped me a little. Are we right about it's position: 80L2L?

Hi Captain Stamp,

NicholasC correctly plated your stamp to 80R2L (not 80L2L).

Oh, that's true. 80R2L, not 80L2L. Thanks for the confirmation!

I have, again, another question. Classic Coins, you proposed me to email you to access the colors to identify the colors of some of mine, but how can you determine more them trough email if the images I send you are exactly the same than on SCF?

Hi Captain Stamp,

I said I could do this by mail. Please review my note on page 233.

Oh, ok sorry. So, I can email you and then you can send me a color sample to help me identifying the color by myself, right?

Right.

Well, the thing about the 72L1L with the December Philadelphia blue CDS is that it most closely matches the 1855 orange reds in my master color set. However, the orange reds didn't appear until around December 1854, and Philadelphia switched from blue to black ink for the CDS about January 14, 1854. To me this most likely means, as NicholasC noted, that it could be in the experimental orange brown group. However, the inking doesn't have the look of the typical experimental orange browns.

Here is an Amonette-confirmed experimental orange brown on the left with an Amonette.confirmed "pale" experimental orange brown in the middle, with the 72L1L on the right.

Classic, is there a single consolidated resource that provides details when certain inks / postmark styles went into and out of service?

I have that one book on cancels, but I haven't read through it in detail yet.

Hi Nick,

The Chase book probably comes closest to a single resource on the inks and postmarks of the 3-cent issue. I haven't read the postmark sections of the Chase book thoroughly so I can't say if it says when postmark styles changed.

The USPCS Chronicle is a great resource for both inks and postmarks, but not for both topics in a single issue that I know of.

Classic Coins, I sent you an email. Did it work?

Yes. I received your email.