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Postage Due Perf 10 Colors

 
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Posted 05/17/2025   8:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add NicholasC to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hey all, I've done a scan of a selection of my perf 10 postage due stamps. These were placed directly on the glass. The variations in color you can see with the scan are similar to what I see with naked eye. The colors in the scan are just a bit brighter than what I see.

Anyway, I have two questions based on this scan.

#1) The 3rd row (three 2c stamps) all glow orange under longwave UV light. The most orange glow is the right most stamp. That stamp also seems more pinkish, perhaps due to fugitive ink. I have a hard time believing each of these is vermilion (known to glow orange). I'm pretty certain none of these three are carmine lake. The first stamp in the 4th row is carmine lake. The other color choice in Scott Specialized is dull rose. I didn't think dull rose would glow under UV light. Are there truly multiple vermilion shades? Is it possible that dull rose would glow under orange UV light?

#2) The 5c stamps. Scott Specialized lists carmine lake, dull rose, carmine rose, and deep claret. I believe what I have are deep claret and carmine rose. I ruled out carmine lake since that would have to be similar in color to the 2c and 3c in the same row. I ruled out dull rose as that would have to be similar in color of the first two 1c stamps in the 2nd row. Perhaps I have my colors wrong. My question is why doesn't Scott list a value for the 5c deep claret?

Note: I'm 99.9% certain these are all single line watermark. I check and double-check these stamps and only give them a number when I can see a good portion of the watermark, especially single line.

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Well I may as well as the question first. Can you provide a photo under UV light conditions? Beats a word picture every time.
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First 3 images are longwave for the 2c stamps left to right in that 3rd row.

Last image is shortwave.




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Edited by NicholasC - 05/18/2025 02:00 am
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In a different thread, we were talking about fluorescence of perf 12 postage due stamps. After some digging, it seems the conclusion was that for the 1894 and 1895 series that the rule is "all vermilion stamps fluoresce, but not all stamps that fluoresce are vermilion". I guess my wondering now is whether or not this would apply to the later perf 12 series (single line watermark) and the perf 10 stamps. The three stamps I have show here all fluoresce (varying degrees), but one of them (the left most) just doesn't see to have a chance a being vermilion.
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