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Does Anyone Recognize The Initials Wrcd?

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Posted 04/06/2023   11:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add rlsny to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Wondering if anyone recognizes who this might be?

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Posted 04/07/2023   12:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add No1philatelist to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wild guess - Water Resources Conservation Development
Could we see what is on the face. Thanks
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Posted 04/07/2023   04:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add essay_proof to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I tried using "Flip Image" in photoshop but that didn't work...
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Posted 04/07/2023   07:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
WRCD (101.5 FM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a classic rock radio format in Canton NY.
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Posted 04/07/2023   8:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If it is an 1894 issue, it might be "watermark R correct designation" (since it comes in every conceivable variation), although why anyone would bother writing it is beyond me.
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Posted 04/07/2023   8:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
My first impression was a cost-code from a previous buyer.
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Posted 04/07/2023   10:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rlsny to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
OK, well I guess I can rule out the world famous philatelist Waterford Randolph Clifford Danforth.

Some "interesting" suggestions. Thanks. The front is pretty, but irrelevant to my question. It's from the 1902 definitive series.

Thanks all for giving it a shot.
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Posted 04/07/2023   11:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Why the reluctance to showing us the front?
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Posted 04/07/2023   11:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

It certainly could be relevant, I don't see anyone jotting down letters on a random postage stamp back. Otherwise it is just useless information.

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Posted 04/08/2023   01:17 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Parcelpostguy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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My first impression was a cost-code from a previous buyer.


Four figures is steep for a series 1902 even if the "W' was a placeholder zero.

Edit: Interesting there is even more writing on the back than the 4 Cap letters.
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Edited by Parcelpostguy - 04/08/2023 01:19 am
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Posted 04/08/2023   08:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Four figures is steep for a series 1902 even if the "W' was a placeholder zero

Impossible to judge without an image of the front. Also because of the prevalence of zero in many prices, some price codes have an added eleventh letter to serve as a second zero.
As I stated, it was my first impression. Do you have any better explanation?
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Posted 04/08/2023   11:18 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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OK, well I guess I can rule out the world famous philatelist Waterford Randolph Clifford Danforth.

Some "interesting" suggestions. Thanks. The front is pretty, but irrelevant to my question. It's from the 1902 definitive series.

Thanks all for giving it a shot.

Without seeing the front, this is a silly and frustrating thread.
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Posted 04/08/2023   3:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add essayk to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's a 1c Franklin, with design touching perfs on right when viewed from the front.
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Posted 04/08/2023   3:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Parcelpostguy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
now that someone brought it up.
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Posted 04/10/2023   10:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Since the OP is not going to post the front...

Don
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Posted 04/10/2023   10:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Since the OP is not going to post the front...


Still no image, no ebay number?
Nice fingerprint on back?
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Edited by rod222 - 04/10/2023 10:24 pm
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