I think this is a Scott 252 type 3 from what I seen on the triangle, if this stamp was from 1895 and it has a post mark 1918 that's a wide spread in years, has any one seen a later stamp state?
An unused copy of that stamp is still valid for postage today. If I were looking for later uses of it, I would look at late 1920's airmail flights and other souvenir airmail covers, which often have older stamps on them.
Many stamps issued prior to WWII are still used on collector mail, Here's one issued 91 years ago on a cover which came to me about a month ago.
I have seen mail with the occasional two cent Columbian over the last several years; one assumes that they were badly damaged so they had no other real value.
Wow, that's wild! I don't think I've ever received mail with anything older than 4th Bureau Issue Washingtons and Franklins on it. I got a block of four of the 1931 Yorktown commemorative on some recent mail.
I rec'd this 279B in late 2019 on a package of stamps. I will say my eyes lit up in some surprise at that first glance, but then I noticed the significant tear in it. The tear has widened a bit after I soaked the stamp off cover.
Over the course of the present year I have received shipments from at least three different dealers bearing various of the 1932 Washington bicentennial issues.
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