Show Your US 1857 Perforated Stamps

Chipshot, here's the lower corner of a 74L5L with a known plate crack thru the S of CENTS.

My thinking is it is below the rosette, but might also be through the E in postage.
Thank you for your input and the knowledge you are sharing.

Hey chipshot --

Despite the generally low quality scan -- I plated your Scott #25 to position 96R8.

No plate cracks or any other recut varieties of note on this position.

Also -- FYI -- the stamp currently slotted as 96R8 on StampSmarter is wrong. I did not try plating it yet -- but it is definitely not 96R8.

The 96R8 Lund stamp on stampplating.com is correctly plated.

I am also attaching a scan of my 96R8 for your additional reference.

In the meantime -- if somebody could remove the incorrect 96R8 from StampSmarter, that would be helpful.

Regards // ioagoa

ioagoa,
Thank you, I checked and apparently one of the other Community Project members had already removed the incorrect 96R8 on Stamp Smarter. I added your 96R8 under the assumption that you are ok with sharing it; if this is wrong please let me know.
Don

I want to thank everyone who assisted me with my postings and the analysis of the stamp. The SCF community is a great forum for learning more in the collecting of all things stamps.

FYI, the stamp previously loaded to the 96R8 slot on Stamp Smarter (show below) that ioagoa identified as being incorrectly plated was found to be position 96R7. The image has been moved to 96R7 on the Stamp Smarter plating charts.

Has anyone encountered a #26 with similar markings? Looks a lot like a 9R20 recut from the top row but with an odd looking curve thru the center of the top left rosette center.

Caper, a bit of a doubled LFL as well. The U of U. S. is affected by the ink smear and there looks to be a spot of ink on the upper most lefthand perf too.

The smear curve travels off the top of the stamp and can be seen between ULDB snd the TLB

Moyock13 - so would you say 9R20 is correct?

Looking for help in plating this stamp with a gash on the shoulder and a possible guide dot in the lower rt outside of the frame line.

Hoping my imaging is improving and that that this one is of sufficient quality.

Hey Chipshot --

On your Scott #25 with the gash and the GD at lower right -- if you go to stampplating.com and use the "plating wizard" -- there are only 15 stamps on all of the "no inner-line" dull red plates (i.e., 4, 6, 7, and 8) that are relief C and with a GD at lower right -- which narrows down the possibilities to a very small group of stamps.

You should give it a try -- and use the GD location as the primary feature to further narrow down the possibilities -- and then compare your stamp against the "short list" of candidates to check all of the other plating features.

Keep us posted on your progress and we are happy to help along the way.

Regards // ioagoa

edit to correct spelling error

My thinking is that this is a 66 R 6. Thank you for your guidance and this is the first time I actually tried to use the wizard.

Hey Chipshot --

Your stamp has the GD outside of the RFL -- whereas 66R6 has the GD inside the RFL.

I took a run through the 15 possibilities identified by the "plating wizard" -- and there are only 2, or possibly 3, that have similarly situated GD's to your patient stamp.

These 2 or 3 stamps will be your "short list". After that, you should be able to plate your stamp based on the Frame Line / Diamond Block spacing relationshps and the bends in the recut FL's.

Keep us posted on how it goes -- and again, we are happy to help out along the way.

Regards // ioagoa

I think it is 27 R 6, The dot appears to be in the correct location. My second choice is 21 L 6 but the top frame line does not appear to extend past the rt frame line. Thanks for the guidance and I have a few more which I will try and see if I can use the tool to good advantage.

Hi Chipshot --

I agree that your stamp is 27R6 -- nicely done.

Regards // ioagoa