More Modern Print Errors

The 1979 $2 Kluane National Park definitive has a Unitrade catalogue listing for copies with the black printing doubled.  As of the year of my catalogue, only 2 used copies were known and the catalogue value is accordingly quite high.  However, I've found 4 copies in my own piles of stuff after only a partial search and I'm sure there are still more yet to be found.  Granted, my copies don't show the same level of separation between the main black print and the ghost print as is illustrated in the catalogue, but it's visible enough that I could spot it with just a magnifying lens.  Here are two examples with a relatively easy-to-see ghost print.  The images shown were taken with a digital microscope (the full stamp image was nabbed from the Canada Postal Archives website).







I'm sure there is debate as to what is rightfully considered a "double print" and what should be considered a "ghost print" or a "kiss print".  The Unitrade catalogue unfortunately isn't real consistent in that regard.  Have a look at the listing for the 1970 Christmas issue to see a copy of what is listed as a "triple print" but which is clearly much fainter on the extra impressions - it's not a case where the stamp was printed 3 times with a fresh re-inking each time, but rather the plate was inked a single time and used to make 3 printed impressions, leaving the inking far weaker on the extra impressions (as is the case with my copies above).

Ryan

I very seldom come across anything of note that's too different from the norm in the mountains of kiloware I've bought.  The stuff that's hard to spot turns up fairly often, like plate varieties or missing tagging or kiss prints, but something like this misperforation is really rare for me.  This is the only Canadian stamp like this that I've ever managed to come across "in the wild".  I see similar things listed all the time from dealers and at auction, and if I wanted a collection of them I guess I'd just buy some, but I sure never see them otherwise.



Ryan

Firstfrog, 

i was nine or ten when I became aware of the Seaway invert. For the next few years I was obsessed with finding one or any other error. One I found out how pricy it would be o acquire, my interest dropped off. At least for the next ten years I collected any stamp. I still spent hours searching and hoping I might find something.  No luck, but I still check any Canadian stamps I get, just in case. I do same for other countries I collect . I do set aside anything that looks «  different » to me. So far have only found items where there has been a colour change over the years. I will keep looking.  Never give up I tell myself. Thank you so much for posting the inverts.

david

Frog, thank you so much for posting this image of your Seaway invert--fabulous stuff!  I have never had a single stamp in my collection with such a high CV.  It is seriously cool that you have that, and I love seeing it right where it belongs.... perfect.

Thanks for sharing that! And bravo to David (dgdecker ) for continuing to look for one.  I hope that you will find one in some unexpected place one day.  That's always been a dream of mine, too, to find a true rarity in a totally unexpected place where it has gone undetected for years.... 

René, thank you very much for your posts on this great subject, the famous Seaway Invert.  It's great to know that your father had one, and that Frog (firstfrog2013) has one, too.  I noticed that you commented about inverted face versus inverted text, but think about that for a moment.

In an invert, the frame and the center (vignette) are inverted relative to each other.  So, although I agree that Scott may choose to distinguish the invert from the normal version by calling it "center inverted", they could have just as easily called it "frame inverted" or "lettering inverted", I think.  I have borrowed an image of another Seaway invert from the Internet, and I have placed next to it, the exact same image of the exact same stamp, only upside down.  So, the first one is "center inverted" and the second is "lettering inverted" but in fact, it is the same stamp.

Personally, I feel that the wording in the catalogue makes it confusing, as there are multiple expressions possible to describe the same stamp.  Does that help at all?  Whichever way you decide to call it, it is a fascinating and rare item of philately, and I think it is great that you and Frog both have a personal connection to the whole thing.

 

Beryllium Guy
I have not ever looked it this way......very good observation !!
www.canadianpostagestamps.ca/post/3/st-lawrence-seaway-inverted-stamp-error

René

Thanks

Colour shifts: variety, oddity or simply a philatelic curiosity?



These are nice to have in one's collection and certainly a joy to come across when sorting through a pile of stamps, but are there worthy of a premium? After all they are not true errors such as omitting a colour altogether, a mis-perforation, or even a re-entry. Instead, as there veer from the original intent of the artist and printer, I would classify them in the curiosity category and would not expect to pay a high or even exorbitant premium to add such an item to the collection as nice as they are to find and have...

Robert WERT - my Mint copy looks the same with the ¢ before the numeral - René - do believe the 4¢ Musk Ox was issued that way as designed by Emmanuel Otto Hahn

History by a stamp with  errors - Scott 981 32¢ issued June 28,  1983 for the Edmonton, Canada, Universiade "83
These specimens were found in the collection (WW) given to me some 2 weeks ago by a friend.
They are the original work of Hugho Daigle, a late philatelist from Edmundston and nothing has been re-touched by me.

One will observe his remarks re: 1) distorted head 2) yellow and blue lines of continuity of right+left hand+head 3) blue line over the hea miixed with the green portion.......2+ oddities not mentioned in Unitrade Canada Specialized. A real printing miss !!
Also a brief history by handwriting (in french and english) with CANCEL 29 VI 1983, while the stamp was issued on the 28th but the first date of sale was the 29th !! submitting to WERT , my Ontario flyspecker friend.
Original specimen 981 without errors
Finally, history of a diver from Georgia hitting the Board, and dying of his injury afterwards in an Edmonton Hospital

The 2 specimens:


Specimen without error:


History of Diving Accident (ref Wikepedia)

Sergei Chalibashvili (Georgian: სერგო შალიბაშვილი; Russian: Шалибашвили Сергей; June 22, 1962 – July 16, 1983) was a Georgian competitive diver from the Soviet Union. He earned a silver medal at the European Youth Championship in 1978 in Florence, diving from the 10-meter diving platform.



Death

Chalibashvili died at the age of 21 following an accident during competition at the 1983 Summer Universiade in Edmonton, Alberta, when he hit his head on the platform while attempting a reverse 3½ somersault in the tuck position. He fell into a week-long coma and subsequently died of heart failure, never having regained consciousness.[1][2]

Fortunately, WERT had previously commented on what he referred to as the "donut."