A New Direction for the Centennial Issue?
Apr 15, 2024 2:30:06 GMT
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Post by brixtonchrome on Apr 15, 2024 2:30:06 GMT
This week I started working on a lot of Swedish booklets for the auction when I started noticing aspects of them that looked identical to things I had seen with the Centennial issue booklets:
and so on. As I started looking them up in Facit to get them ready to list, I read the introduction to the booklet section. Here I learn that Sweden used Goebel multicolour printing presses to produce all their booklets - the very same presses used by BABN. So I get the idea that there will probably be many of the same varieties on the centennial booklets that I find on the Swedish booklets - maybe not all of them, but some for sure.
Now, Facit, being a European catalogue is much more extensive in its listings than Scott would be, and I started noticing varieties that Facit lists that had to do with attributes that I have never thought to check on the Centennial booklets, because there was no listing anywhere that would suggest that there were collectible variations in these things. Examples would include:
The dimensions of text lines and blocks on the covers and the spaces between them.
Whether the cover spines are folded, scored to assist in folding shut, or rouletted, and if so how many roulettes.
Whether panes were glued onto covers by machine or whether some were assembled manually.
These are just a few examples. I came up with a list of about 11 attributes that we could re-examine on the Centennial booklets that may turn up some new discoveries. So, even if you choose not to become a Sweden collector generally, having some of the material from the Centennial period to help illustrate the aspects you are looking at studying would be helpful, as a way of showing the significance of the variations.
brixtonchrome.com/blogs/canadian-stamps-and-postal-history/parallels-between-1967-1972-sweden-and-canada-during-the-centennial-period
I'd be interested to know what you think. I am not on this forum that often, so if you wind up posting any comments, can you please copy and paste them in an e-mail to: info@brixtonchrome.com?
- Counting marks that look identical.
- Spotty white gum on some of the 1969-1971 booklets.
- Minute divots in the card stock of the booklet covers that I have also seen on many of the Centennial booklets.
- Control numbers in the selvedge that look identical to those found on some BK58's, 59's and 62's.
and so on. As I started looking them up in Facit to get them ready to list, I read the introduction to the booklet section. Here I learn that Sweden used Goebel multicolour printing presses to produce all their booklets - the very same presses used by BABN. So I get the idea that there will probably be many of the same varieties on the centennial booklets that I find on the Swedish booklets - maybe not all of them, but some for sure.
Now, Facit, being a European catalogue is much more extensive in its listings than Scott would be, and I started noticing varieties that Facit lists that had to do with attributes that I have never thought to check on the Centennial booklets, because there was no listing anywhere that would suggest that there were collectible variations in these things. Examples would include:
The dimensions of text lines and blocks on the covers and the spaces between them.
Whether the cover spines are folded, scored to assist in folding shut, or rouletted, and if so how many roulettes.
Whether panes were glued onto covers by machine or whether some were assembled manually.
These are just a few examples. I came up with a list of about 11 attributes that we could re-examine on the Centennial booklets that may turn up some new discoveries. So, even if you choose not to become a Sweden collector generally, having some of the material from the Centennial period to help illustrate the aspects you are looking at studying would be helpful, as a way of showing the significance of the variations.
brixtonchrome.com/blogs/canadian-stamps-and-postal-history/parallels-between-1967-1972-sweden-and-canada-during-the-centennial-period
I'd be interested to know what you think. I am not on this forum that often, so if you wind up posting any comments, can you please copy and paste them in an e-mail to: info@brixtonchrome.com?
