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1851 1c Fanklin - Genuine?

 
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Posted 06/19/2025   12:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add sigistenz to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I am not yet very experienced with the early stamps. What about this one? Which Scott type is it? Does it look genuine? Thank you in advance

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Posted 06/19/2025   12:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add txstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Scott #9, Ty IV, recut once at top, not recut at bottom.
Appears perfectly genuine.
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Posted 06/20/2025   08:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add sigistenz to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I can hardly believe it because I got a 2nd one with a practically alike postmark.

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Edited by sigistenz - 06/20/2025 08:26 am
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Posted 06/20/2025   10:59 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add txstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You can read a little more about these stamps here, if you want to -

https://stampsmarter.org/features/S...Plating.html
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Posted 06/20/2025   2:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add sigistenz to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I really appreciate your advice, txstamp Thank you very much.
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Posted 06/20/2025   4:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Germania to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It looks like the bottom of the left stamp matches the top of the right stamp. The red postmarks match up nicely, too.
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Posted 06/20/2025   7:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Philazilla to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Those are nice cancellations! The black is a standard 7-bar closed gridiron - the most common obliterator of the era. The red is a packet steamer cancel. I believe these are a pair that were originally on the same transatlantic cover. I can't make out all of the red cancellation - perhaps someone could use some software to make the red stand out (or maybe someone has better eyes than me) to tell whether this is a British, American, or other packet cancellation. I can barely make out a "K" on the bottom stamp, so my guess it that it is a New York British or American packet cancellation. These cancellations add a few dollar premium price to the stamps.
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Posted 06/20/2025   9:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add txstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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so my guess it that it is a New York British or American packet cancellation.


Correct. The red is a credit to Britain.

edit: these are called exchange markings, applied at the foreign mail desk at the NYC PO. They were for purposes of accounting as part of the US British postal treaty , effective 1849
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Edited by txstamp - 06/20/2025 10:39 pm
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Posted 06/21/2025   2:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add sigistenz to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The two match as Germania says. BTW they came together as part of a larger lot bought in Germany.
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