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Post by tobben63 on Aug 4, 2019 9:01:29 GMT
Just did find this. COB 60-V Missing ball in 5 Ordinary at right  |
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Post by blaamand on Aug 4, 2019 14:32:07 GMT
Nice find Torbjørn - That will fit straight in the space dedicated for this variety in the pages you've received  (...and I've filled my space already  ) |
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 4, 2019 14:53:32 GMT
I did see it in the pages recived, that's why I did look for it when going trough my stamps. Here is one more blaamand, without "sunday tab" but with GDK perf (I think) but also with a rift.   |
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Post by blaamand on Aug 4, 2019 15:17:42 GMT
Sweet! Unfortunate with that tear, it seems to me this stamp is a more clear example of the variety.
Nice perfin to - do you collect them?
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 4, 2019 15:40:14 GMT
I always put the perfins aside, but I do not collect them, maybe one day?
My post 500
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Post by blaamand on Aug 4, 2019 18:48:47 GMT
Gratulerer Torbjørn!
500 posts in a few months - you're heading for the stars!!
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Post by renden on Aug 4, 2019 20:44:51 GMT
Gratulerer Torbjørn! 500 posts in a few months - you're heading for the stars!! Congratulations from Canada  |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Aug 5, 2019 15:53:35 GMT
tobben63Torbjørn, congratulations from France, too! With Very Best Regards, Chris
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 11, 2019 6:07:43 GMT
King Albert I Small 3c issued 1920 Michel BE 115 Scott BE 110 Yvert et Tellier BE 183 Stanley Gibbons BE 179 AFA number BE 115 Belgium BE 183 I wonder if the right stamp is the variant 183-V1 (COB)  Detail. B and E have defects.  |
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Post by blaamand on Aug 11, 2019 8:29:45 GMT
This surely looks like a variety. Nice find!
As youve already seen, I didn't dedicate spaces for all of these minor varieties / plate flaws on the album pages. However there is empty/free pages for 'Extra material - varieties and curiosities etc' which is intended for playing with this kind of stuff.
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 11, 2019 8:50:14 GMT
Yep, I will put it there. |
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Post by blaamand on Aug 11, 2019 11:10:25 GMT
tobben63 - Thanks for starting this thread on Belgian varieties, interesting I was wondering if anyone can help with the variety COB 148a? This is the variety for the custom box in the middle below. (Screenshot below taken from tobben63 's albumpage of 1915-20 London Issue (FULL PAGE HERE) As I understand the COB catalog, this variety has saw-tooths in the internals of the figure '5' - however COB provides no image of this. I tried to find images on the internet and a Belgian stamp forum etc, but with no success. I have a copy of this stamp I suspect might have this variety, but I am not sure, hence it would be nice to know how it really looks like. I found a stamp claimed to be 148a on sale at Delcamp right now (LINK), but the image is too bad to really see the details. Could it be the seemingly slightly serrated bit of the '5' (as indicated below) is what makes up this variety - or am I misunderstanding COB description altogether? 
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Post by Ryan on Aug 15, 2019 7:14:30 GMT
blaamand - My COB is in Flemish, not French, so the text is slightly different but no more detailed. Less so, in fact - your French text says to look at the interior of the numeral, whereas the Flemish text just says "numeral 5 is serrated". The word used is "gekarteld", as in this Google image search showing a serrated knife.  Ryan
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Post by blaamand on Aug 15, 2019 10:19:44 GMT
Thanks Ryan for your inputs, much appreciated 😊 At least you've confirmed that my understanding of the serrated appearance is correct. Strange the Flemish version doesn't specify the location of the serrated 'edge', would have thought the catalogs were similarly detailed. Anyway, thanks again, hopefully someone else may able to provide a decent image of the serrated-5-variety at some point 😊 |
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Post by blaamand on Sept 26, 2019 23:07:07 GMT
No feedback concerning decent images of Belgium variety 148a. Inspired by tobben63 I purchased a 'Phonescope' to make decent close-up photos. I received this today, and tried it on my suspected copy of 148a. The variety is caractherized by the internals of the figure '5' being serrated - meaning like saw-tooths. It seems to me the Phonescope nailed just that with this image, so I think this new toy helped to solve my own question in previous post  That concludes all the 3 spaces of the 5Fr in my album, as per COB - jippi!!   |
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Post by tobben63 on Sept 27, 2019 4:08:02 GMT
Very good Jon ( blaamand). Now that you have showd us what to look for I will have a look at mine. What is strang is that catalogue companies totally ignore to improve their catalogues with bether images. This particular is a bit special but thrre are others that should have been improved years ago. I know this is expencive to do, but they need to improve to stay alive. (Another sidetrack) This litle cheep tool proof useful. |
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Post by blaamand on Sept 27, 2019 6:52:32 GMT
Absolutely! The catalog publishers should get themselves such a toy themselves! Lots of lots of images of such details can be improved, and more importantly they can provide images of varieties like this one. Would be really useful!
Thanks for the inspiration to get this tool 😊
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