On Jun 13, 4:43 pm, "Terry Reedy" wrote:
"Kent" wrote in message

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| Does anyone know if Scott changed the early stamp numbering sometime
| after 1943?

Both before and after.

| The Scott International Junior Stamp Album copyright 1943 has a few
| U.S. stamps that are marked differently from what we use today.
|
| For example, Scott #33 is actually Scott #11.

Originally, Scott started US with the provisionals numbered 1-27.
In 1940, they got their current 1x to 12x numbers.
Sometimes in 1944-1947 (don't have these volumes),
old 28/29 first general issues were moved to current 1-4.
In 1948, 30-54H moved to 5-46

| Scott #214 is actually Scott #212.

In 1952, 212, 213, and 214 were rotated to become 213,214,212.

| Not sure how many others might be wrong!

Not wrong, just different, based on new info and fashions.
There were several changes a years at least thru early 50s,
and even occasionally today.

| Thanks for any help.

You are welcome.
I have a number of relevant S. Specialized.
This was my first chance/call to realy use them ;-).

Terry J. Reedy

Thanks very much for the help, and glad that you were able to use your
Specialized Catalogs.

I not only had the different numbers in the 1943 Scott Album, but I
had some stamps from my Grandfather that were identified with the same
changed numbers. It really confused me until I suspected the change.

It also confused a collector that was interested in several stamps, as
I had emailed photos of stamps he wanted and they obviously weren't
what he had requested!

K. Williams