Sorting US Postage Due Stamps/Identifying Silk Paper Stamps

[@michaelhull9617]

Thanks for all of your work on these videos! They are a pleasure to watch.

[@KylesStamps]

I appreciate that! Thank you very much!

[@johnscamardo2145]

The colors in the one set of dues are like the early GB Victoria stamps in that the inks will get damaged by water . Majority of the postage dues are easily identified through wtrmrks but silk paper is easily identified through the diff color threads in the paper.

[@LawnGnomePower]

Appreciate the tip on Carson LumiLoupe. I also have some US revenue stamps that I can’t put in my Davo Albums. 😢

[@GreatStampAdventure]

All kinds of things today. 🙂 First of all: congratulations with your new work!!!! Exciting! I wanted to say this a few times: I enjoy to see what dramatic intro you are going to play. You have a variety of them and they are all well made. Njam, njam, njam for the banana bread! I can not usually make such nice goodies, because I will eat the whole bread in one sitting! 😆I like your new recliner. You are well set up for leisure living. Nice! Great video about stamps. I enjoyed to see how you order your stamps into your album. The colour shades are crazy! Thanks for the video, Kyle!

[@KylesStamps]

Thanks!!! I hope the new job goes smoothly, even if it doesn't, I need the money badly enough that I will likely have to stick with it for a while regardless. I'm glad you like the intros, I actually spent a lot of time making them. It was a little hobby for a while and some are better than others. I regretted not putting chocolate chips in the banana bread. If you ever make a loaf, try it with the choco chips, it's SO good. I hope you have fun with your own stamp journeys!!

[@jeffreyhalvorson31]

Thanks for the video. Nice to see you doing and sharing the research. Thanks for the tip for the websites. i was not aware of them. I will certainly use them.

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Oh, the silk paper was interesting as well.

[@LetsTalkStamps]

What an amazing collection! Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@KylesStamps]

Thanks!

[@paradiselost1914]

I remember buying strips of clear mounts back in the late 1970's. They were common enough to be sold in department stores along with albums, packets of stamps and FDC's. Many color variations of US stamps can be very difficult to determine. I have an old color gauge, but often that isn't very helpful. After 50 years of collecting, I still have trouble determining the color difference between US Scott #10 & #11. On some postage due stamps, the color difference is so noticable that I'm compelled to save both color variations. It would look odd to not separate the variation.

[@gumshoe2273]

Didn't see my first clear mounts until abt 1979.

[@Robertbrown08049]

Congratulations on your new job. I too have had problems distinguishing colors on postage due stamps but then I have a slight color deficiency. Just an FYI the "t" is pronounced in claret. Banana bread, yummy. I like the Postage Due stamps with Special Delivery stamped on them. If my album has only one space for a stamp then I would put it in and write under the stamp J61 or J61A. Do you have a color guide? That helps. Perhaps of you soaked the stamp you could remove some of the paper gucky and hinge reminent to help identify the watermark. When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's there was not as much a distinction between MH and MNH as there is today. My US Liberty album has 9 pages for Revenue stamps. It does not have pages for all categories listed in Scott but most of them. Maybe you can find an inexpensive empty US Liberty album. I have seen them at flea markets. I love the green and purple Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax stamp. My kitchen is green, beige and purple so it matches the stamp. Lol!

[@KylesStamps]

I do have a color gauge somewhere, I forgot about it...Haven't used it in so long. I do like revenues and maybe at some point I could get a album for them, thanks for the suggestion!

[@Samael-Metzger]

Try distinguishing the red and brown shades when you are color blind!

[@voneschenbachmusic]

A valiant effort - I completely ignore color shades unless they are really significant - there is just too much opportunity for other factors to change the apparent shade like lighting conditions, whether the stamp is faded from exposure to sunlight, fugitive inks, dirty from poor storage, oxidization, etc. Also doesn't help to be color blind in the reds/browns lol

[@paradiselost1914]

I remember buying strips of clear mounts back in the late 1970's. They were common enough to be sold in department stores along with albums, packets of stamps and FDC's. Many color variations of US stamps can be very difficult to determine. I have an old color gauge, but often that isn't very helpful. After 50 years of collecting, I still have trouble determining the color difference between US Scott #10 & #11. On some postage due stamps, the color difference is so noticable that I'm compelled to save both color variations. It would look odd to not separate the variation.