Post by cjoprey on Apr 3, 2024 22:08:17 GMT
Hi all,
I've been going through a backlog of US airmail stamps and found two copies of C23 from 1938 - which exists as a deep blue and a (much rarer) ultramarine variety. I've done what research I can on an unfamiliar area for me, and now thought to query the forum's hive mind.
Everything I've seen points to there being many colour variations of the $0.25 C23. However, one common factor for the rare $1,500.00 C23c seems to be the much thinner lines in the shield and background, as well as a clearly differing blue shade.
It is (as always) much more likely I have a colour variant of the cheaper one, but wanted to post the two I have here, and ask if anyone with more experience would be willing to cast their thoughts.
Thank you!
This first one, which is a definite C23:
The undetermined one, which I am considering to be a possible C23c:
I've been going through a backlog of US airmail stamps and found two copies of C23 from 1938 - which exists as a deep blue and a (much rarer) ultramarine variety. I've done what research I can on an unfamiliar area for me, and now thought to query the forum's hive mind.
Everything I've seen points to there being many colour variations of the $0.25 C23. However, one common factor for the rare $1,500.00 C23c seems to be the much thinner lines in the shield and background, as well as a clearly differing blue shade.
It is (as always) much more likely I have a colour variant of the cheaper one, but wanted to post the two I have here, and ask if anyone with more experience would be willing to cast their thoughts.
Thank you!
This first one, which is a definite C23:
The undetermined one, which I am considering to be a possible C23c:
