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Post by michael on Mar 22, 2024 12:49:01 GMT
The Barbados Britannia stamps were printed at the same time as the Cape of Good Hope triangle stamps and would have used the same ink and paper. They are therefore also found and catalogued on both blued or white paper. So could the COGH experts including Beryllium Guy , JeffS and vikingeck please use their experience to confirm if they think the following is 'paper blued' or 'white paper'?
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hdm1950
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Post by hdm1950 on Mar 22, 2024 13:02:35 GMT
michael without having the stamp in hand I cannot say with certainty but based on your scan I am going with White paper. It is always more of a challenge with blue stamps than red or green to see the blued paper. Nice stamp.
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Post by JeffS on Mar 22, 2024 14:21:02 GMT
My opinion is white paper.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 22, 2024 14:53:36 GMT
Thanks for your post, michaelIt is indeed a very nice stamp! I agree with Hugh ( hdm1950) and JeffS that it looks like white (i.e., non-blued) paper to me. I would also add that Stevenson's assertion is that blued paper can only be properly judged by looking at the back of the stamp. In your example, there is what I would call "blushing" of blue ink in the left and right margins of the stamp, which can only be seen on the front. I have observed that this effect is often misidentified as blued paper when it comes to Cape Triangles, and I don't know if that came into play when you bought your stamp. Congrats again on a great acquisition!
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Mar 22, 2024 16:47:50 GMT
Like the Cape of Good Hope triangles the blue paper is a challenge sometimes. I have these 3 in my collection that I consider to me to be blued paper and would be Scott 1,2 and 4. The Scott 4 (4p brown red) came with a 2009 APS certificate. To my eyes it is the least blue. The scan of the back does not due these justice. To the naked eye in natural light the blueness is more obvious especially when looking at with the later white paper examples.
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Post by michael on Mar 22, 2024 19:35:00 GMT
Thank you so much for the replies. Similar to COGH there is a blue (sg3) and deep blue (sg4) on blued paper and a pale blue (sg9) and deep blue (sg10) on white paper. Of course in reality there were many different shades of blue and probably many different variations of blueing and somehow dealers/collectors have to sort these into just 4 sg numbers. I've already had to return one 'dark blue on white paper' that turned out to be the remainder slate blue on blued paper (sg5a)! The seller said it was as described from a Spink auction but accepted the return. My next purchase looks correct, a pale blue on blued paper so I needed a dark blue one for comparison. The image from my original post was described by a very expert dealer as dark blue on blued paper (sg4) so I thought I couldn't go wrong by buying from an expert. So when I looked at the back and it looked very white and nothing like the 'blued paper' one above I posted here to see your opinion. As the white paper version is more than twice the catalogue price I won't be sending it back! I'm now a blued paper sceptic as well as a colour sceptic. :-)
PS Thanks for the scans hdm1950. I appreciate that natural light is the best but mine also looks white in natural light.
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