Help with wavy line 2ö of Denmark (Scott 58, Facit 77)

Have you the two printings ? 1905 and 1917?
I am working with gibbons.
watch for small hearts omitted.

Sorry, Spain, my internet went almost to a crawl, it does that sometimes in the country.

My 2 ore in Gibbons Denmark, show 3 types 1905,1917 and booklet panes.
The differing font is NOT addressed.

I have both a Facit and an AFA for Denmark, and they don't help me a lot.  Facit is written in Swedish and uses the terms rakt & snett to describe the difference.  In English, Facit uses oblique and straight, and looking at alternate translations the words askew and square would also be valid.  The problem for me is with the Facit illustration - there is almost no difference visible between the two types.  The AFA illustration is slightly larger and there is a slight amount of upward tilt to the top leg of the "E".  Along with the slight upward tilt, the illustration shows that the end of the top leg doesn't extend as far to the right as the bottom leg does.  Again, the difference is slight and in the Facit illustration you almost can't see it - if you weren't told to look for it you'd probably never spot it.

If I straighten your type II stamp and zoom in, I can't really see any indication of the top leg being tilted upward - I wouldn't note it as a type II.



One helpful note in Facit is that both 7 øre colours and the 12 øre stamp (all of these with hearts) are printed only in type II - if you have any of these, you can compare the ØREs.

Considering that these stamps were printed with typography (letterpress), the edges of any image elements are always prone to a little bit of squash and wobble - you seldom get perfect straight lines with typography, there is often what looks like a bit of overinking, a kind of overspill around the edges.  I think this is going to make it tricky to spot such tiny differences.  You might have more luck looking at the numeral 2, on type II stamps there is a sharp corner at the lower left point of the numeral which is slightly rounded on type I.

AFA agrees with Facit and does not list these type variances for the 1905 issue.

Ryan

Ryan - Oops, apparently I got the Type I and type II backwards.



Here is a closeup of the pair above, which is Facit 77, which I have corrected the "type" tags from my original post.


Here is a pair of Facit 87.


and a closeup of the same pair.


Jkblue - Yes, it looks like the type I and type II in both are the same to me, with the exception that the type II on the 77 seems a little more heavily inked.

Ryan, thank you for the clarifications. I could not make out the Facit illustrations either and your make it more clear. I'm still new at collecting Denmark and have a long way to go. Now, I will revisit my stash of 2ø's and see if I have any of the ones you show. I also have some 7ø and 20ø that I can check. Your clear illustrations will make it easier.

Got it, thanks.

I really need to get more sleep so I can pay better attention.

OK, I think I found an actual type II of the 2ö.
Ryan, what do you think?

(type I above - straight top leg of E and rounded toe of 2, and type II below - top leg of E inclined slightly upwards and toe of 2 pointed)

Thanks for confirming. Now I need to figure out how I want to work it into the collection.