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My Personnal Penny Red Challenge

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Posted 02/16/2025   6:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks!
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Posted 02/17/2025   01:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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billsey, I prefer to choose them for their color, cancellations, and condition. But anyway, if I wanted to, I couldn't, because my initials are EV, and V doesn't exist on these stamps. Thanks for proposing me.


CS exists at top.
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Posted 02/17/2025   02:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, that's true. I'll maybe try to find one. We'll see.
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Posted 02/18/2025   3:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add billsey to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Actually, CS doesn't exist, SC, however, is down toward the bottom left side of the sheet. :)
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Posted 02/18/2025   3:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That's true!
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Posted 02/18/2025   10:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Assuming that it looks like a Brick red shade?
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Posted 02/19/2025   12:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It looks more like a rose-red on my screen.

I thought a brick-red had a brownish hue to it? Hopefully someone can confirm
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Posted 02/19/2025   12:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'm almost sure that you're right. Does this one looks more like Brick red?
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Posted 02/19/2025   02:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Actually, CS doesn't exist, SC, however, is down toward the bottom left side of the sheet.


Now, what did I write?


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CS exists at top.


Stamp 19/3 has the letters CS at the top as the top two letters are reversed from the bottom letters.
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Posted 02/19/2025   03:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Oh, that's true!
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Posted 02/22/2025   3:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pjr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
According to Stanley Gibbons, the "brick-red" shade only occurs on stamps with stars in the top corners.

I buy all my penny reds with four corner letters from my regular GB dealer, and I only add them to my order when I'd otherwise fail to qualify for free postage or a discount. The result is that I add them to the album and forget about them. I'm sure it's much more fun to search for interesting examples, as you do.

By the way, you could get both "CS" and "EV" at the bottom of a ½d "bantam".
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Posted 02/22/2025   5:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the reply, pjr! For the brick red shade, that's weird, we can see in my Scott catalogue that it exists on the stamps with four corner letters too. I also had several other references that were proofing it exists. Buy Stanley Gibbons is an awesome reference too, so that's pretty curious.
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Posted 02/22/2025   6:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pjr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I refer to the SG Specialised Catalogue, which lists only "rose-red" and "lake-red" as shades for the Penny Red without stars. I think SG beats Scott for GB, just as Scott beats SG for USA.

To me, your "HS/SH" stamp looks rose-red. Your "FF/FF" stamp also looks rose-red (but photographed in bright light). Your "DI/ID" stamp looks lake-red.

Incidentally, if you're interested, your "DI/ID" stamp has part of a "LONDON N[orth] W[est]" CDS.
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Posted 02/22/2025   6:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, pjr! By the way, the ID and FF stamps are not mine, i'm looking to buy some and I took some examples from Ebay. For the cancellation, did you notice that because it's rare, or just because you recognized it?
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Posted 02/25/2025   1:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Plate 90 arrived today in a nice condition and rose red shade.


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