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Quote: 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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Actually, CS doesn't exist, SC, however, is down toward the bottom left side of the sheet. :) |
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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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I'm almost sure that you're right.  Does this one looks more like Brick red?  |
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Quote: Actually, CS doesn't exist, SC, however, is down toward the bottom left side of the sheet. Now, what did I write? Quote: 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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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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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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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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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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