Show Your US 1857 Perforated Stamps

#20 on cover from plate position 1L2. I'd appreciate any discussion on how some of the marks in the top margin got there.

That's a nice stamp. Its centered to show the variety well at the top.

I don't know that the transfer roll was necessarily 'dropped' per its name, but it was certainly misplaced initially. Since this is the T relief, aka top-row, there was no relief above it. So, the remnants are clearly from an earlier, incorrect setting of the roll.

As expensive as these plates must have been, carelessly "dropping" the transfer roll seems to be an incorrect analysis.

Nice intense color as well.

Thanks for your comments, guys.

A couple of 1¢ with imprints

Those are some superb imprint captures, stallzer.

I bought this block a few years ago. I saw it, and simply couldn't walk away from it. The top two are Type III (#33) and the bottom two are Type 2 (#32). I bought it with the belief/hope that it would turn out to be the only known 10c combination block cancelled only in red. I had a few weeks to determine this - I saw it a few weeks before it was due to sell at an old Spink-Shreves auction - and went to all the online databases that I could to try and find another. I couldn't find another, so I bought it. I have kept looking over the intervening years. A couple years ago, I DID find another combo block, cancelled only in red, on cover. DRAT!!! The cover's block is sound, to boot - my block has a small tear in one of the bottom stamps.

There are plenty of combo strips cancelled in red, and there are a few combo blocks with 'stray' red cancels that are cancelled primarily in black. It would not surprise me to find others - I just haven't yet seen them on the market, or in the literature that I've looked at. My goal was uniqueness. I guess I got scarce. Still, I am very, very happy that I got it!!! Here it is:

That's a lovely block.
10c multiples with different types are always fun.

That's an outstanding combination block, mootermutt987! I like the centering and the semi-transparent red cancels.

Here's my #26 Type III on a cover sent from New York

Stallzer, have you plated those imprint copies? It would not be difficult.

Not in front of my stamps but if memory serves me they are 50R9 and 50 R10

Yes, they are.

My latest $2.00 acquisition.

A guess, Scott #25 Type I on cover. I'm not proficient at identifying the 3 cent Washington's. And I haven't attempted to plate this one, it's on my bucket list to learn.

Here's the cover. What struck me originally was the red Boston cancel and the PAID strike.

Better image of the stamp. 25 type I (?)

Back of the cover with a Boston cancel