Show Your Pairs, Strips, Blocks, And All Your Stamps Joined Together!

Here's a ratty ole strip of 5 + 1 and still due 6c.

Here's it's buddy ratty ole strip of 7.

Really nice covers!

wow those are great covers!!

A strip from my collection from Zululand...

Linus

Here is a block consisting of three columns of US Sc.#266 type II at left and two columns of Sc.#267 type III at right.

Brookman devoted two pages to this interesting juxtaposition of types. There were some 125 million of the type II issued and nearly 7.5 billion of the type III. 207 plates of 400 subjects each were used in printing the type III, but on one plate, #170, the types were mixed on the upper right pane. The other three panes of plate #170 were all type III. So there were ten combination pairs from each run of plate #170.

Such combination pairs of 266 and 267 were sought after, but not often found of course among the billion plus of such stamps out in the wild. By now many, if not most, blocks have been broken down for sale in pairs. This particular block is a favorite of mine, but it's very delicate so I try not to jostle it when turning album pages as some perfs are separating.

First the block, then a higher res close-up to contradistinguish the type II and type III triangles at positions 3/4 and 8/9 of this block.

thats the first time I knew of this combination. not common knowledge. very cool! This combination pair is not listed in Scotts.

Glad it was of interest, Michael. That's the great thing about philately - always some new tidbit or wrinkle!

That is a very cool block, thanks for sharing.

Wow, really nice piece of history! With all the descriptions on the left side, the plate number, really awesome looking block!

The Zululand strip is nice too!

That's a great block. And there are other values with combination pairs in that era.

Don't have much US, but I do have this.

Nice!

what other pairs revcollector are you talking about?

Re other type combination pairs or blocks, in the same 1895 Bureau series as the 266/267 combination, we have Sc. 276 and 276A. (type I and type II of the $1 Perry stamp). The plate for these consisted of 200 subjects, 15 columns of type I and 5 of type II. So again there were ten pairs per each plate printing. Not nearly as many Perry stamps were printed as the Washington, so these type combinations are rarer.

Here is a strip of three, the left one is type I 276 while the middle and right are type II 276A. The distinction is not triangles in this case, of course, but whether the circular lines enclosing "$1" are broken open (type I) or not broken (type II) where they meet the outer line of the oval frame surrounding Perry's profile bust.

I like! Very cool to see the pair!