Bob,
Before you go nuts the next time. Email me if you need something. I stoped collecting US and WW 20 years ago and have a large amount of duplicate material from around #200 into the 1960's. For a good cause I might even pull it from a book.
Congratulations, Bob, a fine accomplishment and thank you
for sharing your achievement with us.
John Derry
Finally did it! I wanted to include the last American Bank Note Company printing of definitives in a web page, but I didn't have #224, the six-cent value picturing President Garfield. After scouring the internet for an hour, I finally found an attractive used copy on the Stamps2Go web site. Here's the complete set, including the 2-cent lake and the 2-cent "cap on left '2'" and "caps on both 2's'" varieties:
And here's a closer look at the "caps" varieties:
I wanted to include the image of this set in my newly revised web page, Memories of Silver City, because the four-cent Lincoln stamp was used to upfrank the postal stationery envelope that is the basis of the web page.
There is something that is quite satisfying about completing a set of stamps, especially when that last stamp meets the criteria you started with, which in this case was reasonably well-centred stamps with reasonably attractive cancellations.
I'm working on an additional web page, about the 4-cent Lincoln stamp. Earlier this evening I was just blown away by a web site I found as I was looking for more information about that stamp than is provided by Scott. The web site is that of the U.S. Classics Philatelic Society.
Bob
re: Scott #224 in the bag!
Bob,
Before you go nuts the next time. Email me if you need something. I stoped collecting US and WW 20 years ago and have a large amount of duplicate material from around #200 into the 1960's. For a good cause I might even pull it from a book.
re: Scott #224 in the bag!
Congratulations, Bob, a fine accomplishment and thank you
for sharing your achievement with us.
John Derry