Post by jamesw on Feb 14, 2015 2:54:23 GMT
Does anyone know anything about Photographic Reproduction Printers Proofs, or as a Brigham Auction catalogue described them recently, 'Printer's Composite Design Review & Approval Proofs'?
Purchased a box of covers last night at stamp club, and this was inside. A photographic reproduction of the 1898 Xmas stamp. The cropping of the image is similar to those in the Brigham catalogue for its November 2014 auction. And comparing it to the actual stamp, some of the details are a little cruder, especially the 'rope' border. It is on stiff shine (both sides) photographic type paper.
Now, I don't know if this is a proof, there's no writing or description, but I think it's interesting. Mine has half tone dots (it is not continuous tone, like a picture in your granny's photo album). Half tone dots, or a screen, are what they use in magazines etc to get gradated tones. Look at a black and white or colour picture in a book or magazine and you'll see them. They are created by taking a picture of the image on a large stat camera, and literally laying a screen - a plastic sheet with a series of very fine lines criss crossing both ways - over top of the paper.
I don't know if the printers proofs usually have half tone dots, but maybe some expert out there has seen one up close.
In the end I know there's probably no way to prove this is one of those proofs, but I will certainly do some digging.
Goes to show, you never know what you'll get for 5 bucks!
Purchased a box of covers last night at stamp club, and this was inside. A photographic reproduction of the 1898 Xmas stamp. The cropping of the image is similar to those in the Brigham catalogue for its November 2014 auction. And comparing it to the actual stamp, some of the details are a little cruder, especially the 'rope' border. It is on stiff shine (both sides) photographic type paper.
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Now, I don't know if this is a proof, there's no writing or description, but I think it's interesting. Mine has half tone dots (it is not continuous tone, like a picture in your granny's photo album). Half tone dots, or a screen, are what they use in magazines etc to get gradated tones. Look at a black and white or colour picture in a book or magazine and you'll see them. They are created by taking a picture of the image on a large stat camera, and literally laying a screen - a plastic sheet with a series of very fine lines criss crossing both ways - over top of the paper.
I don't know if the printers proofs usually have half tone dots, but maybe some expert out there has seen one up close.
In the end I know there's probably no way to prove this is one of those proofs, but I will certainly do some digging.
Goes to show, you never know what you'll get for 5 bucks!
