tomiseksj
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Woodbridge, Virginia, USA
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What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 21, 2013 20:48:48 GMT
The first regular U.S. issue was authorized by an Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1947, to take effectJuly 1, 1847. From that date, the use of Postmasters' Stamps or any which were not authorized by the Postmaster General became illegal. The imperf 5c and 10c stamps of the first issue were produced on thin bluish wove paper by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson from plates of 200 subjects in two panes of 100 each. The issue was declared invalid as of July 1, 1851. Per the 2011 Scott Specialized (U.S.), the earliest documented use of of the 5c was July 7, 1847 and the EDU of the 10c was July 2, 1847. It took me over 30 years of collecting before I acquired my first (and only) 5c red brown Franklin (Scott 1, shown below). While I'd like to get a copy of the 10c black Washington (Scott 2), I don't think that will happen anytime soon. I encourage members to share images of their 1847 holdings on this thread.
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ratio411
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Pensacola, Florida
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Post by ratio411 on Jul 23, 2013 20:04:15 GMT
Mine is not perfect, it has some small flaws, but the flaws do not impact the eye appeal, so I like it fine. I got it when I bought a complete collection, as opposed to buying it as a single purchase.  |
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I.L.S.
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I am in Clearfield, Pa. I love US Classic covers!
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Post by I.L.S. on Jul 24, 2013 17:13:42 GMT
OOOH I love it! I still need a Scott #1. I'll pop on one someday soon. I'd really like one on cover but those get a little pricey I noticed! I love the blue cancel on that one. The oldest stamp I have is a Scott #7 Scott #7 Franklin ~ ONE CENT I can't get the thumbnail image tags from Photobucket to work correctly for whatever reason they have these URL's on everything even the IMG taga. I remove them in notepad first so they work correctly. Here is a huge fly-speck quality image if you want to see it.  |
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mark
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Post by mark on May 27, 2014 18:32:35 GMT
The first stamp, with the red cancels, was mailed from New York City. The red square grid cancel is quite distinctive (It was first used on a NY Provisional cover in Nov of 1846). The circular blue grid cancel is "socked on the nose" and may have come from Philadelphia. What I really like about the Scott #7 is that you can date the mailing (March 30) but the blue ink makes the town name hard to determine. I think its Baltimore. The base of the A is clear on the left at the back of Ben's head. That may be part of an L at 11 o'clock (somewhat under inked but so is the M in MAR, so its consistent). The stem of the T is hitting the A in POSTAGE). Finally, the I may be in the upper right corner. I realize a lot of this could be wrong but Baltimore is my guess.
If the stamp color and cancellation inks are different, there are tricks you can play in Microsoft Picture Viewer to alter the contrast and brightness, or you can invert the colors in Word and then go back to MPV to boost the inverted image. Finally, if you have Photoshop or other advanced s/w, you can eliminate the stamp color entirely. Blue on blue, unfortunately, is hard to work with.
All three stamps are very nice.
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