Show Your US 1847 Issue Stamps & Covers

Pulled out all the shades from the Langs estate material I have - made the decision they all have to go to the PF rather than trying to convince myself. So here is the teaser. (The last one says "PFC" but like so many of these stamps, the certs are missing and too old to find)

rlsny - my mouth is watering!!!

This is the well known Hartford, Ct "pointing-hand paid" in Magenta.

The stamp is a Dark-Brown #1a.
This is ex-Caspary, Haas, Garrett, Boker & Gross.

Many thanks to board member Richard Frajola. I was really happy to get this item.

Got my Orange brown and brown oranges back from the PF.
As it turns out, both the stamps I posted here

http://goscf.com/t/74487&whichpage=6#715475 br /

are orange browns. Of the 7 candidates I sent in 6 came back either orange brown or brown orange. A much better yield than I hoped. Some faults as expected, but I'm a happy camper.

I said about your two stamps:




Which is why I now collect Russia.

I am bumping this thread because I think it could use a bit more attention.

Here is a pair of 1847's showing how poorly aligned the rows of stamps can be. I am sure there are examples of other positions where this is more extreme.

Here's a 1 orange brown on cover. The cover is a folded 7 1/2 in. square sheet. The letter on the other side is dated September 4, 1847, so it would make the stamp first printing.

A Philadelphia merchant was appealing, in haste, to the Trenton, New Jersey, Justice of the Peace to detain an absconding debtor, a Lieutenant Charles Abrams who was thought to be en route to Governor's Island NY to embark to Mexico (the Mexican American War was reaching its climax at this time.)

A propos the 1847 #1, there is a nice mention in the May 2023 Chronicle of the plating initiative hosted at StampSmarter which arose out of the forum thread at http://goscf.com/t/65075. The database was essential in plating the so-called Mower shift as apparently 51L.

Beautiful cover. Congrats!

Thanks for restarting this.

Here is a "Turner" cover, with two 5c 1847's placed at upper left, overlapping, as was the case on much of the correspondence.

The faint red postmark is from St Louis, MO and the two 5c stamps pay the 10c over 300 miles rate from St Louis to Boston.

Yes, this is terrific progress.

I studied the article and the plating -- it definitely still needs to be verified, but this is really good progress, thanks to the stampsmarter plating database, and jaxom's work on it.

edit: jaxom - it looks like maybe this block is the source of the 51L stampsmarter scan: http://goscf.com/t/65075#566047

Position 9 on the block.

Here's my US #2. I used to have a couple, but I sold them. Recently added this on so that I want empty.

Stan Shepp

That's a great looking stamp.

txstamp, I am looking back into the plating of that block as requested. I am adding more information in the database as I research more on this plate. I am also trying to create a guide dot chart for this plate. I have included an image from my future guide dot chart to show what I am trying to accomplish (See image 1). The stamp posted above on cover that was listed as 51L1 is incorrect. It cannot be from column one because it has a guide dot in the left center design. All column one stamps have no guide dot there. (See images 2 and 3)(image 3 is from the Ashbrook photo archive).

mootermutt987, The poorly aligned rows are the result of the original design not being square. The right side of the frame is lower than the left side. See example with your pair that I have included. Notice that the left frame line of the first stamp and the right frame line of the second stamp are aligned.

Hi, Jaxom,
I am unsure, but perhaps you are referring to the cover I posted above on this page (7), as a claimed 51L1. If so, I did not claim that. I have not attempted to plate it.

I was merely making a mention of the credit being given in the Chronicle to the Stampsmarter db on which you're doing yeoman's work.