JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Feb 23, 2024 0:10:07 GMT
I have only one triangle, for example, but it is a nice one. Cape of Good Hope, Sc 13, 4-pence dark blue July 21 2019, Like looking through the Webb telescope to the beginning of the universe!
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Mar 9, 2024 15:48:43 GMT
I recently added 4 triangulars to my collection. From L to R, top to Bottom per seller descriptions:
1d Brown carmine 6d SG7 Pale Rose Lilac 4d Scott 4 4d Scott 4e Bright Blue
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I bought the 1d as I liked the color and the crisp bank cancel.
The SG7 has what was described as with a crease, which was visible in the listing. It runs from G of POSTAGE through D of GOOD. I thought the "crease" was a bit odd as it was not linear as one might expect but showed some meandering as if created by a foreign object such as a string. I thought I would take a chance. I can find no evidence of such an object although the "crease" is definitely 3 dimensional in depth on the back. A redeeming feature is strong marginal watermark lines (Seller image added)
The Scott 4 had pleasing color and margins as did the Scott 4e Bright Blue.
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All 4 have had a reasonable H2O2 bath.
Take the color reproduction with a grain of salt as My scanner is notvery accurate.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 9, 2024 17:24:48 GMT
Very nice, JeffS ! Congratulations on landing some beautiful stamps there! Just wanted to comment on the seller-described SG7 Pale Rose Lilac. I think this stamp is much more likely to be an SG7c Slate Lilac on Blued Paper. The color definitely has the slate-gray component to it, and there are some spots of bluing evident on the back. It is a very nice stamp, crease or no crease, but I think clearly one of the slate color shades. I will post a side-by-side comparison for you later today.
Edit: I also forgot to say thanks for re-posting my old first post in this thread from 2019, back when I had a grand total of one Cape Triangle! It has indeed been quite a journey since then! It has been a fun one for me, and I have learned a lot since then, and hopefully still learning. Thanks to you, and Alex ( vikingeck) and Jim ( jkjblue) and Warren ( wm) and everyone else who has spurred me on along the way! It has been the most rewarding philatelic journey of my life to date.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 10, 2024 16:04:56 GMT
COGH Perkins Bacon 6d Color ShadesThanks for your patience, JeffS. I got busy with some other things yesterday, but I am back this morning to show you some 6d color-shade examples from my collection, including one that I have not posted before. Top left: COGH, SG7 Pale Rose Lilac; Top right: COGH, SG7b Deep Rose Lilac Bottom left: COGH, SG7c Slate Lilac; Bottom right: COGH, SG7d Slate Purple All of the above are my identifications. In some cases, those IDs agreed with the dealer's opinion, and in some cases not. The SG7b is a bit blotchy in color, but I think it illustrates how fading can occur, so I have found it valuable in that regard. Bottom line is that I still think that your latest one looks most like the SG7c and not much at all like the SG7 as the dealer had listed it. Back to my bunch here, the big question is whether the bottom right is a real SG7d or not. The Slate Purple is one of those shades whose existence has been questioned by some of the Cape Triangle specialists. I am still hoping to do a color quantification analysis on this stamp at some point to see if that can shed any light on whether it is different from the SG7c or not.
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Post by JeffS on Mar 10, 2024 16:48:29 GMT
Hi Chris Beryllium Guy and thank you for your romments on my 6d. You wrote, " I still think that your latest one looks most like the SG7c and not much at all like the SG7 as the dealer had listed it." which I certainly concurr with. I was suspicious about the SG7 designation when I saw it online and certainly after receiving it. And it is a seller description error definitely in my favor, not that it matters that much due to the "crease"
I can definitely see a variance in shade from your bottom 2 specimens. However the price difference between SG7c and SG7d isn't all that great or significant as the triangularr SG values seem to be heavily discounted across the board.
Thank you for taking time to post your images of your exceptionally nice examples. In a much earlier post you mentioned that you were especially fold of large margin triangulars, a craving which I too share. I recall a posting by an expert on another site who said that spending money on less than 3-margin examples is a foolish.
At a later time I would be interested in reading a discussion of why the triangulars are so highly discounted fron SG prices. But at this moment I suspect that is so across the board for clasic British Empire stamps.
Thanks again, JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Mar 11, 2024 22:52:09 GMT
A 26 GBP forgery? Thats what it just sold for.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 12, 2024 18:48:15 GMT
Sorry for my delayed response, JeffS It's hard to tell from your latest image what this is. If it's a forgery, then I think it must be made from a scanned image of a genuine example. The image is very woolly, and the color is a very deep, dark blue. If it is genuine, then I am thinking it is likely an SG19 or potentially SG19b Slate Blue. The problem for me is that the paper doesn't look right. I can't tell if it is stained, foxed, discolored, or photographed in poor lighting (or some combination of all those). In any case, at least to my perception, the image looks like it comes from a genuine Cape Triangle. Without an image of the back or the ability to examine the item, it is quite difficult to draw conclusions. That's just my opinion, and of course, others are welcome!
Edit: I should also add that I recently received a multiple of "facsimile" Cape Triangles in an eBay lot. They looked genuine in the seller's photo, and there was nothing in the lot description about them. When I got them, it was clear that they were printed from scanned images of genuine stamps. I note that there is another eBay seller who is asking GBP 3.50 per copy for such facsimiles. In a photo, these can be tough to differentiate from genuine stamps.
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Post by JeffS on Mar 12, 2024 21:39:04 GMT
Beryllium Guy Hi chris, thank you for your insight, I should have posted the back as well which is which to me looks nothing like the real thing.
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Post by michael on Mar 13, 2024 10:56:22 GMT
Thought this might be of interest on the 'sack of capes' story, from an article by Fred Melville in the 8 March 1913 edition of The Postage Stamp following the death of Edward Stanley Gibbons.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 13, 2024 16:28:41 GMT
Thanks for posting that image of the back, JeffSThis would seem to confirm my suspicion that something is not right about the paper. For one thing, there is no hint of a watermark visible, which is certainly an indicator of something amiss, although it is not absolute, as there are known examples without the watermark. The more intriguing point to me is to note that the brown discoloration of the stamp only seems to affect the margins and the back but not the printed image on the front. I would have expected the discoloration to be visible in the lettering and/or the image of Hope. This leads me to suggest that perhaps this stamp has been trimmed and re-backed, which would account for a genuine-looking image but faulty paper. What do you think?
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 30, 2024 16:25:07 GMT
Won at auction recently and arrived today, this SG 2 exemplar:
And by popular demand, the back of the stamp:
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Post by vikingeck on Mar 30, 2024 16:58:59 GMT
Nice clear margins with a light cancel. The cancel looks like the later “barred oval” type used in the 1860s period rather than the usual triangular CGH type . So possibly not SG2. How blue is the back of the stamp? EDIT. following the post from xacs of April 3rd , I guess I was wrong with mis identifying it as a barred oval cancel (BOC) . I can see it is an inverted and incomplete triangle cancel after all .Apologies.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 31, 2024 7:49:12 GMT
Quite blue. That's the first thing I checked.
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Post by michael on Mar 31, 2024 9:15:30 GMT
Quite blue. That's the first thing I checked.
I'm trying to understand the bluing effect (see the Barbados thread), could we see a scan of the back please?
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 31, 2024 15:00:28 GMT
I edited the original post to include a scan of the back of stamp.
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Post by JeffS on Mar 31, 2024 16:07:26 GMT
I edited the original post to include a scan of the back of stamp. Very nice bluing!
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Post by vikingeck on Mar 31, 2024 16:13:04 GMT
nice Cameo effect
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 31, 2024 16:50:15 GMT
Very nice stamp, Xavier ( hrdoktorx).... I congratulate you! The bluing looks great. It's a very sharp print, too, with unobtrusive cancel. It's nicer than the one in my collection!
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Post by xacs on Apr 3, 2024 7:15:48 GMT
Nice clear margins with a light cancel. The cancel looks like the later “barred oval” type used in the 1860s period rather than the usual triangular CGH type . So possibly not SG2. How blue is the back of the stamp? Does look a bit like a BOC but on closer inspection can see it is in fact a light typical cape triangular cancel, inverted when viewing the stamp as shown so no indication of late use. Very Nice!
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Post by JeffS on Apr 4, 2024 19:44:53 GMT
A new addition:
I found this piece compelling with the 2 COGH postmarks, WELLINGTON DE 7 1858 and CAPETOWN the next day, cut from a stamped folded letter, with a 2-margin copy of SG6, Perkins Bacon printing.
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Post by gmstamps on May 13, 2024 3:40:39 GMT
Cape of Good Hope - worthless? From what I see, it's just worthless, but am I wrong?
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Post by rod222 on May 13, 2024 4:10:33 GMT
Cape of Good Hope - worthless? From what I see, it's just worthless, but am I wrong? gmstamps Opinion. Yes....very wrong One of the most respected postage stamps of all time, studied and examined by thousands of specialist Philatelists. It has endured 171 years, prior coming into your curatorship. Financial worth aside, it would be welcomed in most colleagues collections that I can think of. Commands respect and good husbandry. I'd welcome it any day, 4d (Fourpenny) conjoined pair...exquisite! Perhaps pertinent, to illustrate, that is "Hope" in her sublime beauty, as the vignette of those stamps. Let's hope she survives.
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Post by vikingeck on May 13, 2024 6:53:38 GMT
I have a modest collection of these Cape triangles and have to say I would tend towards almost worthless . It is at best a spacefiller for which the owner has only regrets. I cannot agree with rod222 ‘s “exquisite “. I certainly would not admit it in my collection. in that condition it is a sad apology for a careless attempt to remove it from whatever it was stuck on to.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on May 13, 2024 20:29:10 GMT
Thanks for your post, gmstamps I hope you don't mind, but I have moved your post and the responses from the SA thread to this one, which is dedicated to Cape Triangles. When I see an item like yours, it makes me feel regret that something that was once clearly very nice is no longer so. Shame on whomever did that dastardly thing! I tend to keep all Cape Triangles that come into my possession, even the damaged ones, as they may still serve some useful purpose, but I don't usually display those as part of my collection. So, in this case, I would tend to agree with Alex ( vikingeck ) that this rather heavily damaged pair would have low monetary value. I think that when it was intact, it was a full-margin, postally used pair of COGH SG19a 4-pence blues, with a fairly woolly print clarity, a nice example of a De La Rue printing of these stamps. It would have been worth a few hundred dollars in today's market, particularly because of the full margins. These days, I do see on eBay that even damaged Cape Triangles are still generally worth something, so I would not throw these in the bin. If you wanted to sell them, I think the most you could expect would be a few dollars (or equivalent) due to the obvious damage. Just my opinion. I have used damaged stamps like these for soaking studies, and they could also be used for other research purposes, such as color shade comparison and quantification. Thanks again for posting!
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Post by rod222 on May 13, 2024 20:58:26 GMT
As you can see, these so called "worthless stamps", have two interested parties, already "throw in the bin" is disgraceful.
Always best to place at auction, for the best price, don't sell to private parties I'd kick off an auction at $20
Just remember, your Grandfather, did not opine these as worthless, he saw the value of these stamps, way beyond their monetrey value. He was a philatelist, and a very good one, by the quality we have seen.
In your journey, you will sometimes meet "elitist collectors" who see anything less than a perfect "pretty" stamp, is below them. Tread your own path.
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Post by gmstamps on May 13, 2024 21:40:57 GMT
Thanks for all the replies. I will hang on to it. Found other triangles too, but they're reprints, have South Africa written on them.
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Post by rod222 on May 13, 2024 21:42:55 GMT
Cape of Good Hope stamps have always had a special attraction for philatelists. They are among the most coveted classical stamps. They are the World's first triangular stamps, They have a romantic history. there are varieties, errors, a provisional priming, covers, mixed frankings, re-prints, the lot.
On October 28th 1982 At Sotheby's London 1,333 Lots of Cape Of Good Hope, sold for over 1 million dollars in just a few hours
The Auction Catalogue is worth in excess of $40 (1982)
Personal Anecdote A mere 25 years before, these postage stamps blessed us, my Great, Great, Grandfather, (An Black, iliterate sailor, and Captain's Cook and Steward) was based at the Cape of Good Hope, aboard HMS Maidstone, on anti-slavery service.
On the 11th-12th October 1827 , just off Fernado Poo, they intercepted, and took possesion, of a ship bound for Brazil with 308 slaves aboard. We can only hope those poor souls were returned, to Calabar unharmed.
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Post by rod222 on May 13, 2024 21:43:47 GMT
Thanks for all the replies. I will hang on to it. Found other triangles too, but they're reprints, have South Africa written on them. You have made this fella, very happy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on May 14, 2024 0:24:09 GMT
Thanks for all the replies. I will hang on to it. Found other triangles too, but they're reprints, have South Africa written on them. Good for you! I think that's an excellent choice. Monetary value is not the be all and end all for items like these. Especially since you have inherited them from your wife's grandfather, that certainly adds an element of connection that will matter more to you and your family than anyone else. Anyway, glad to hear that you will keep these. Just for fun, I took your original image, and I used it to perform a "digital repair" of the torn-off corner. This is not a seamless repair, but at least it gives you a general idea of what the original may have looked like. By the way, the triangles of this same design inscribed South Africa rather than Cape of Good Hope are genuine postal issues from South Africa, not merely reprints of their COGH predecessors. If you are organizing by country, they should be part of the Union of South Africa, which started in 1910.
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Post by gmstamps on May 14, 2024 0:38:55 GMT
Great work and thank you for the advice.
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