Is This Maybe A Two Penny Blue?

Not prepared to speculate.
I have over 600 Queen Victoria stamps,
I would be lucky to have 1 maybe 2 Pmks from Scotland
both illegible.

The bars of Scotland are generally rather thin, the stamp is not,
I'd suggest it has been struck twice, and the ink run, further confusing things.

Agreed more then one strike, I'm thinking the 3 is actually a 5 and it's possibly 25
Just a thought

It looks to me like the '3' is actually just a bit more heavily inked bars on the right side. The numbers should be centered between the left and right bars.

Where would it be if it was 25 or 52?

Since what looks like numbers also appears to have bars in between the numbers, it might be a double strike. Also, the 'gap' appears much too large for this to be a two-digit number. Any suggestion as to the office number becomes pure speculation. At a first glance, I would be tempted to say it is a '5.' However, to my eye those two numbers appear to have differently shaped central horizontal segments. So, I have no idea what I am looking at, other than a probable Scottish cancellation. And even there I would not be 100% certain.

The habitual trickery with scans does not help. It creates things that are not there, especially when the number at the end may show a second strike - if at all - that is offset to the left and not to the right of the other strike, and furthermore not half as far up as suggested in the scan in last post on page 1.

If you look long enough at that scan, this thread is going to degenerate in a discussion of a double transfer of the 'P' in PENCE.

352
Three strikes, My best guess.

Just how I see it.
Three strikes from 352 (Ferryport-on-Craig)
Like I said my best GUESS
Not asking for anyone to agree, it's indecipherable.

With what I've been given, that's what MY conclusion would be.

Edit, could be one or the other

352 Altnabreac (in Caithness)
352 Ferryport-on-Craig (in Fifeshire)

I know I shouldn't.

I am just puzzled by how overnight '23' has become '352.'

Call it a learning curve.