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Old Ref For Postal Stationary Before Scott Listed

 
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Posted 03/20/2021   4:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add aucguy to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello Everyone, so I bought an old U.S. postal stationary collection and the envelopes are all identified with 4 numbers as identify for that period of time. Scott's re-numbered the listing some time before I started to collect stamps. I am looking for some type of crosswalk document that show the old number to the new number system.
It would be nice to have copy, since I share my knowledge with other club members as my own cost.

Thanks for the help.
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Posted 03/20/2021   7:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add DStamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The 1935 Scott has envelopes numbered beginning with 2301 for the 1853-55 issue.
Columbian issue starts at 2585.
Envelops end with 1932 Sesquicentennial issue as 2758-2760
Wrappers are 3000-3048
Letter sheet is 3150

Air post is 2900-1, (5c blue, 8c olive green)
Officials are 3200-65, wrappers 3272-75
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Posted 03/20/2021   8:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add aucguy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks D Stamps I will have to look for an older Scott catalog.
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Posted 03/21/2021   08:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Scott re-numbered their catalogue in 1940, if you want the older numbers, look for a catalogue 1939 or older.
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Posted 03/21/2021   11:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wtcrowe to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If the Postal Stationery collection is from an old time collector, it is also possible the number is a Thorp or Thorp-Bartels number. Specialized postal stationery collectors used those numbers for identification in the 1940s and 1950s, just as they now use the United Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) numbers now.
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