Question on small queens

I make it's CV$ between $175-$300.Out of $35 purchase.

Colors by Don Bowen as featured on back cover of R,Maresch &sons auction catalouge

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Thanks.

The 10c SQ is quite a nice stamp. Perfs on 40 can be 11 1/2 x 12. Perfs on 45 are always 12 x 12. I find this one way but the shade is the best and easiest. The shade of the 45 is usually a brown red or pastel shade to it. I find that 40 has a purple or pinkish component to its shade. After saying that, 45b is a pink shade. This one shade will be perf 12.

Here is a 45v - the pitted right "0" variety.

Here is a copy of the other shade of Scott 40e - Pale Milky Pink. This shade has a distinct pink tint to it where the other one is pale and almost colorless.

The Scott 45 10c Small Queens are all Perf 12. They have a stronger color to them and this is the key. Here are some common shades. I think you can see the difference in the color between the 40 shades and the 45 shades by looking at these examples.

Scott 45 - Brown Red



Scott 45a - Salmon (Dull Rose)



Scott 45b - Pink (also has the Pitted "O" variety Scott 45v)

Ryan,

I can't be 100% sure that is true right now. Unitrade does not show Guide Dot info in their table for Small Queens under the 10c, only the 1c, 2c, 3c, 5c and 6c.

It may be true but I would like to ask someone to verify this.

I recently purchased "The postage stamps and postal history of Canada" by Winthrop Boggs but it is still in the mail. I'm hoping to be able to dig into the Small Queens a little more with this book.

I received one answer from a fellow collector:

"There was only one plate ever made for the ten cent, it was not reentered. The guide dots are there LL, they hug the design closely and slowly disappear probably due to plate wear and the use of lower quality paper."

What I hear from this statement is that the earlier 10c Printings such as the Scott 40 would have Guide Dots and the reason the later printings don't have them is because of plate wear.
So the Guide Dot is not a guarantee for Scott 40 but just an indication that it is an early printing. No exact date as to when the Guide Dots disappeared but obviously before the Scott 45's were printed.

I may get more answers. If I do, I will post them here.

I have a Quarterman reprint of Boggs so I had a look.  As you say, a single plate was made and was never re-entered.  A strange thing - the position dots seen on your copies of #40a and the right margin misperf of #40b are very prominent, and the various shades of #45 still have lots of depth remaining in the engraving.  It seems unusual that the dot would have disappeared without appearing to affect the remainder of the engraving.  Maybe there's a variety of depth in the guide dots - that appears to be the case in your copy of #40b, the dot on the left isn't as prominent as that on the right.  Perhaps you just have a couple of stamps with abnormally strong guide dots?

Ryan

Frog, I think what is meant by " the plate wasn't re-entered" means that there wasn't a general repair made on the plate. For the repair, the steel transfer roll would have been used to sharpen the images on the plate where they have been worn down. This would create a 2nd State of the plate. That doesn't mean you won't find any re-entries on 10c Small Queens. Any re-entries from the 1st State would still be there.

And indeed, the listed plate varieties appear on both Scott 40 and Scott 45.

Frog, I also like to collect the varieties and have found alot of interesting errors over the years. I have a very large collection of 3c Small Queens, all with some type of odd error. I could post some of them, if you are interested.

There are only a few Large Queen and First Cents Issue plate varieties left for me to get. I have most of them. I contributed a few of the tougher ones to this new website hosted by a member of our club.

flyspecker.com/index.html


I only collected Pence, Cents and Large Queens for the longest time and only expanded into Small Queens over the last five years.

Now I always had a collection of Canada Issues with different varieties or VF Quality which I added to or improved. I also collect these varieties on cover and have a Postal History Collection.
I will try to post some of these but if you have specific ones you'd like to see, please let me know.

You might see all of the listed varieties but here are a few 3c SQ's that you may never see anywhere else:

Flaw in N of CENTS


The Masked Queen


Engraver's Slip lower right


String of Pearls (lower margin)

Another example of under inking ??