firstfrog2013
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What I collect: BNA Liberia St Pierre U.S. Bolivia Turkey
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Jan 31, 2016 1:31:51 GMT
I get very bored with definitives and all the paper sub types. Abitibi,Clark,Harrison.Rolland.coated,uncoated,Peterborough,Slater,NF,DF,LF,F,MF,HF,HB,SF,.
I have resigned myself to (a) never completing the series (b) finding them already sorted and labeled hopefully by someone who knows what is what.
To throw in different perfs on the different papers and now you have a collectors true nightmare.
What is your approach?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2016 3:09:48 GMT
This won't help much but the date they started using it might help??  On used copies, this is not much help & some are hardly distinguishable On the very early ones you have several types of machine & handmade papers You may have to invest in some "CSI" type equipment to tell the difference  |
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firstfrog2013
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What I collect: BNA Liberia St Pierre U.S. Bolivia Turkey
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Jan 31, 2016 4:30:10 GMT
Thanks falschung, That's the page from Roger Harris' site I reconize that one. It appears from every site I visit the problem is somewhat universal. I am making a serious effort to obtain at least one example of every stamp in my collection and this seems to be a stumbling block not so much as the prices but man o man what a varietal nightmare.Just putting the centennial series in order of release is a challenge in of itself. We'll not talk about the four hundred or so actual varieties can can be found in them.And I thought our U.S, collectors had problems with perfs ,grills and colors well I am now in that world I guess.
Actually the reason I started on Canada was that very thing when i was helping Mom with her early Washingtons and bank note series I thought "go with something less confusing" it worked for quite awhile too. Then came 1967 and my world turned upside down.Of course by that time I was already in too deep to turn back.
So here I am in this crazy mess.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2016 5:07:39 GMT
My own labor of love was Brazil
It took me about 10 years of regularly going back to it to determine the some 20 or so watermarks and control marks on the same reissued definitives.
Many of which the watermark only appears on some of the plate or just a small partial on a stamp.
I finally got about 95% of it - luckily there was one issue with no watermark so I had lots of those.
I once started collecting the 10% off Belgium overprints but gave up when I found out there were about 17,000 or so varieties.
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