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Post by michael on Jun 2, 2022 8:36:02 GMT
Antigua 1d SG25 (carmine-red) is catalogued by Stanley Gibbons at £2.50 and SG26 (rose) at £60 (2019 prices). Here is the SG colour key for these two colours: Here are the 2 stamps as sold by a UK commonwealth dealer: The 2nd one doesn't look much like 'Rose' to me? In fact I can't tell the difference between them and there are similar pairs of the 2 stamps elsewhere on the internet which also look very similar. Delving into this further, I've find that the Scott catalogue (2006) and Melville's 1929 book on Antiqua do not include the Rose colour version. Can anyone confirm if the latest Scott catalogue includes this colour varient as I've seen it on Ebay as Scott 18a?
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angore
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Post by angore on Jun 2, 2022 9:49:40 GMT
My Scott lists 18a as 1p rose.
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Post by paul1 on Jun 2, 2022 12:17:18 GMT
michael - sorry to seem dim, but are you saying that the right hand stamp is being sold by that U.K. Commonwealth dealer as 'rose' - looking at the background colour I can't see how anyone would suggest the colour of either is rose - to me that's a poor choice of word to describe that pinkish colour, and I agree with your thoughts on this matter. Unfortunately, roses come in a variety of colours/shades, and it might have been thought more practical to stay away from a word with that sort of colour association. How we see colours, their shades and tints, is a very subjective matter, and even words like pale, light, dark, are misleading and don't really help, but then I expect it's always been so. Reproducing colours on the screen doesn't always convey how the same colour appears in the flesh. In my copy of the SG colour guide (1969), the 'rose'swatch shows a greater lean toward pink than is showing in your example, and my 'carmine-red' is less dark than yours - I'd have thought there was a good case here for using 'burgundy' for the left hand swatch - oddly SG don't use that word for any of their red based colours.
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Post by michael on Jun 2, 2022 19:02:21 GMT
Thanks angore, looks like they added it after 2006. paul1, yes the one on the left is carmine-red and the one on the right rose (according to the seller) and it looks like they have been scanned together. I have SG25 but I'm loath to buy SG26 without viewing as it is difficult to see such subtle colour differences from a scan. |
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Post by paul1 on Jun 2, 2022 19:28:18 GMT
thanks michael - I still can't remotely see the right hand stamp being anything other than the same as the SG Carmine-Red of the left hand example - absolutely I don't see the right hand stamp as anywhere near SG Rose. I'd save my money until something more like Rose comes along;-)
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