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Post by canstamp on Feb 15, 2024 20:25:28 GMT
Hi, I was looking at some mint and used stamps of the 2979 ice vessels.
I noticed that some of them have the black lines (ladders, ropes for sails) are off not even attaching to boat.
I tried to search internet on errors of these 4 stamps but nothing about this. It showed a couple other errors.
Does anyone have any kind of info about this
Catalog number for these stamps are 839 to 842. They came out November 25, 1978.
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 16, 2024 4:56:48 GMT
Those thin lines for ropes and such are engraved whereas the rest of the ship is printed with lithography, so they're separate parts of the printing process. If the engraving is poorly aligned, the ropes will miss lining up properly with the ship. Unless they miss by a lot (for example, part of the ropes end up on the next stamp beside it), it's considered pretty much the same as a poorly centred stamp and is not something of extra value. The Unitrade catalogue used to list various minor colour shifts but there was a decision made years ago to remove them and for the most part, they've all disappeared from the listings - I think maybe the Welland Canal issue (?) still mentions "hair touching the barn" but that's the only one I remember seeing in catalogues from recent years (maybe the Siamese Bears 25c landscape definitive from the '70s is still there too?). The Darnell catalogue listed all kinds of these colour shifts.
Ryan
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Post by rod222 on Feb 16, 2024 7:17:41 GMT
Sc# 779a 1978 Sailing Ships Ice 
To Illustrate Ryan's explanation, Rigging and Pulley varieties Sc# 747a  |
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