Birthday Celebration for Triangle Stamps - Post Yours Here!

Many thanks for the nice post, Alex (vikingeck ).  In truth, I was trying to find a COGH SG20 for you (6d De La Rue printing), but I came up short on finding one in nice condition at a good price. While I was looking, however, I came across some other nice 6-pence issues, and I thought that this SG7 would be a nice addition to your collection.

I have a personal theory that fiscally used 6d Cape triangles have a better chance of showing good colour than postally used ones.  I have noticed the tendency in stamps being offered on various sites, and I suspect that it has to do with the circumstances particular to the two types of use.  I imagine that envelopes bearing 6d stamps that were postally used had a much better chance of sitting out in sunlight on a desk or a writing table, getting exposed to the UV rays.

But stamps affixed to documents to pay taxes or other fees, would just have easily ended up in a drawer or a file or inside an envelope, where they would have been protected from the UV light.  So, even though postally used copies have a higher catalogue value than fiscally used ones, I think that the fiscally used ones have the better chance of being in good condition colour-wise.

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Werner (salentin ), I just wanted to mention that while I completely agree that the 1-penny Cape triangle shown in your last post looks certainly to be an SG18 variety (De Le Rue printing), I think that the 4-pence blue is probably not an SG19, and much more likely an SG6 or SG6a (assuming that it is not on blued paper).  The DLR printings are a different, darker colour of blue not found in the Perkins Bacon printings.  Please look at the image below:



Only the two in the bottom row are SG19, DLR printings.  All the others are Perkins Bacon printings, varieties of SG4 and SG6.  I am away from home tonight, but I acquired another SG19 after posting this image, which shows another shade of blue for the DLR printings.  I will try to post it for you after I return home later tomorrow.

I also have reason to believe that the DLR printings are much less common than PB ones, and I can show some evidence as to why I think that.  More to follow....

Back to recent triangles, this souvenir sheet from Hong Kong, part of a series on classic Chinese literature:

Rob, ever since you made this post, I have been meaning to ask you, since you used these on your outgoing mail, which way did you affix them to the envelope?



Above are the two ways that I think of when it comes to a triangle stamp that has a 90-degree angle in it.  The orientation on the left is what was shown in the FDCs in your original post, but the orientation on the right is the one that I have encountered most often on old Cape of Good Hope covers, with the 90-degree angle tucked into the corner of the envelope.

So, just out of curiosity, which orientation did you generally use?

Thanks, Rob (REL1948), for satisfying my curiosity.  Nothing like a good triangular flaunting, I would say!

renden, here you go,

Daniel

Souvenir Sheet from Togo in 2013 on Formula 1 drivers with a triangular stamp celebrating Fernando Alonso:

Loved this tread beings I too collect triangles. Can't wait for the next triangle birthday celebration.

Happy 169th "Birthday" to Triangle Stamps
1st September 1853
Day of Issue of the World's First Triangle Postage Stamp

Just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the anniversary of the release of the world's first triangular postage stamp today by the Cape of Good Hope.  Last year's celebration got such a great response, I was amazed.  Thanks to all who participated in this thread!  Here is my offering for today:


COGH, SG20 6-Pence Bright Mauve

In the course of doing my research into the Cape Triangles, I came to realize that I had misidentified this one.  I originally thought it was an SG7b Deep Rose Lilac, but I have learned now that the color is too deep to be one of the lilac shades.  So, it has turned out to be a De La Rue printing after all.  My education continues!

This particular example has a couple of flaws in it that I had also not originally realized, so I am looking to replace it at some point, but I have learned that truly nice copies of any of the 6-pence triangles are few and far between, so I will probably have this one in my main collection for some time yet.

If you have a triangle to show for today, I hope you will post it here.

 to triangular stamps!

To celebrate the occasion, a set of covers from Argentina issued for the Copa America soccer tournament it hosted in 2011:

Happy 170th!

Here's a few more triangles that may be of interest:

Bolivia - Scott # C72 (airmail), 1939:


Romania - Scott #C90 and #C91 (airmail), 1960:



Soviet Union - Scott #5763, 1989: