63? Color Issues That I Can Not Identify.

Same stamp taken from 2 different devices the top from a scanner 1000dpi and bottom from a cell phone. The stamp has been sitting in a stamp binder untouched for many many years until handed down from a gradfather. Is it 114 a,b,c? I am new to this and I know there are experts here that can pick the correct color with a good explanation.
Thanks

If there is no grill, then this is a #63, of some sort. As to color, you have presented 2 very different photos, showing two very different colors. This is the problem with scans/photos of stamps - unless the device (and the monitors at the other end) are calibrated for color, nothing definitive can be said about color. The color variations on the #63 are subtle enough that no matter what kind of photo/scan you take, there is probably no one that can come to an accurate conclusion on the color. My guess would have nothing to do with color, but with odds - the most common color/shade is the basic blue. So.... ODDS ARE this is a blue #63.

There are all kinds of threads here on SCF about this color issue and how it pertains to electronic representations.

If anyone has any sure info on what shade this is, please pipe up!

You might try scanning the rwo stamps together and include a couple of newer blue stamps in the same scan. It might provide us a basis to make some educated guesses.

They are both the same stamp.

Below is an image from a previous post from 2016 posing the same question. Mine is the bottom, both the same stamp imaged differently. Could it be the dark blue??
Thanks for all of your input.

Hi Doug. Welcome to the group!

There are countless hundreds of threads on this board about "what shade is this?"

Most of them ultimately get the same reply: With the variety of scanners and monitors it is impossible to tell. One must really accept this as a reality. Especially with lone stamps scanned without any other accompanying reference. You yourself demonstrated this by posting two images of the same stamp under different lighting conditions and fooled caper123.

Additionally, the scans of your stamp were not done in the same scan (under the same conditions) with the "test strip" of 6 shades, so any comparison between your stamp and the 6 has minimal validity.

I would go back to Mootermutt's advice, assume you have the most common shade and move on to other stamps. Chasing the various shades is typically something for when one has multiple examples and can do side by side comparisons under the same lighting conditions.

Wow. I would love to have my collection evaluated and certified for exactness but not sure it would be feasible. Who would have thought there would be so much ambiguity with stamps.

Thanks for the offerings,