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Month: November 2021

Not Quite As Scarce As A Unicorn. But Close!

Not Quite As Scarce As A Unicorn. But Close!

A lovely unexpected surprise, found in a junk lot I got from Denny Peoples at a 1-day Indiana show last month. On its face it looks run-of-the-mill… but it most definitely isn’t. For whatever reason, the 1-cent stock transfers and particularly RD1 are very scarce on document. One can look through thousands of these slips (and I have cumulatively) and never see one. Presumably it’s because the 1c would only ever been used as a make-up stamp rather than solo,…

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A Very Nice Civil War-Era Illegal Use Cover… and a Warning

A Very Nice Civil War-Era Illegal Use Cover… and a Warning

As some may know, one of my collecting focuses is illegal/improper usages related to U.S. revenue stamps: 1. Postage stamps used as revenue stamps on documents 2. Revenue stamps used as postage on cover. Primarily 19th century material, but also bleeding into the early 20th century. The vast majority of my collection in this area is postage stamps used as revenues, some 200+ documents at this point. The number of covers with revenue stamps used as postage is considerably smaller,…

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