AntoniusRa
The truth is within and only you can reveal it 05 Feb 2018 09:51:07pm | re: 219D Color?
CF1957, I don't know where you got that scan of 2 cent colors but most of them look "off" to me, especially the Pink.
Below is a scan of them from my collection.
1. Pink
2. Red
3. Carmine Lake
4. Lake
5 Carmine
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earwaves
Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop. 06 Feb 2018 02:53:58pm | re: 219D Color?
Thanks, everyone.
I can see the definite shading differences in AR's and Anglo's images. My original question, poorly worded I can see now, should have been:
Why doesn't Scott's call its lake color stamps "lake red," "lake pink" or "lake carmine"? The word "lake" implies "blue" to me.
But... the confusion may be related to an insect used in some red dyes, the cochineal, also called a "lac," which happens to be the French word for lake. (I grew up in Fond du Lac, Wis.) So these stamps are not really blue-tinged, but BUG-tinged!
Now that I'm educated, I won't be calling this familiar stamp a lake:
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earwaves
Well, at least I got to have a haircut in the Penny Lane barber shop. 06 Feb 2018 03:11:45pm | re: 219D Color?
Oops, Anglophile. I missed going to your Wiki link before MY etymological post.
I'm also inflicted with Anglophilia. One of the high points of our trip to the UK was the full uncut sheet of Penny Blacks at London's excellent Postal Museum.
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