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Pitcairn : A Never Seen Before Format.

 
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Posted 11/28/2010   07:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add rod222 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

In 10 years of collecting, a new format layout for me:



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Posted 11/28/2010   08:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
First time I've seen that stamp. One wonders if there is a tete-beche companion in the "other" orientation...
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Posted 11/28/2010   08:43 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

to print a sheet, there would have to be a tete beche, right?
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Posted 11/28/2010   09:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
...or a label...
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Posted 11/28/2010   09:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sharp, Collin :)
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Posted 11/28/2010   09:18 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 22crows to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Pitcairn Islands - one of set of 4, 2002, SG632-635

http://www.stamps.gov.pn/TreesIII.htm
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Posted 11/28/2010   09:27 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kirks to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I found this image on the Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau website
http://www.stamps.gov.pn/

I must say, it isn't the format I expected. Either way, I don't think it qualifies as tete-beche, does it? The adjacent stamps would have to be oriented 180-degrees in relation to one another, wouldn't they?




Technical Details
Release Date :        1 December 2002
Denominations :       40c, $1.00, $1.50, $3.00
Stamp Design :        Donna McKenna, Wellington, NZ
Printer :             Joh Enschede, The Netherlands
Process   :           Offset Lithography
Paper :               Sopal Stimat 110gsm
Stamp Size :          38.89mm x 38.89mm triangular
Perforation Gauge :   13 x 13.25
Sheet    :            50 triangular stamps per sheet
First Day Cover  :    $6.90


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Posted 11/28/2010   09:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Gee, thanks Guys and Gals,
Kirk, absolutely,
either as a minisheet, or a pane,
that would not create a tete-beche.
Very unusual, but nice format.

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Posted 11/28/2010   09:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'd say they are se-tenant when joined with a neighbor.
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Posted 11/28/2010   09:41 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Where are the mathematicians?

Given that format, to get 50 stamps in a sheet
there <must> be two labels, right?


Ah, no say 5 rows of 10
and no tete-beche created.


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Edited by rod222 - 11/28/2010 09:56 am
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Posted 11/28/2010   10:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kirks to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes Rod,

That's got to be it -- they would have to be printed as "bisected squares" (for lack of a better term) -- the four in the image must have been split, then rearranged into the rhombus formation.
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Posted 11/28/2010   12:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Elegantly explained. well done.
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