I Know I'm Nuts… 362s Don't Live On Covers Right?

Before you send it in for a certificate, do not remove the stamp looking for the watermark. If removal is needed you will be advised. Paper color being incorrect would remove the need to soak off for watermark detection.

I am also bothered by the light cancel not extending off the stamp.

The last issue is the bold cancellation is not contemporary. That means the retail value will not reflect the on cover price in the catalog as well as the off cover, simple used stamp.

It is your stamp and your certificate money, just report back any outcome.

The blue papers look gray - even a little bluish gray - but mostly gray. The paper on your stamp looks brown (dirty).

Don't tell your friends!ì

I'm having a problem understanding the humor in your posts. Are you saying that it is real and that we shouldn't warn our friends to look for a similar item?

What happened to everyone's critical thinking?? han1mal, why didn't you measure the perforations of your on cover stamp, and report they are "perf 11" ?? (That's what they appear to me to be.)

han1mal, you also went to trouble to put some other used 6c Washington next to the one on the cover, but I don't think you were thinking of perforations at all, just wanted to see "normal" paper and ink I suppose (your used stamp at left is a perf 10 ... why not measure any "perf 12" washington-Franklin you have around, and then put that next to the 6c on cover -- I don't think they will line up. 6c on cover looks to be perf 11, which is the typical perforation of the last millions of flat-plate printed stamps printed.)

Check again stampsOnMail, the original stamp is definitely perf 12.
The comparison stamp midway down the first page is definitely a perf 11.