Stamps:on Closer Inspection.

I sometimes wonder how many stamps I have on-sold as "duplicates"
when they wern't?

Two different catalogue numbers.

Hi Rod.....

Many folks miss the details..........with and without printers name ( Delarue ? ) under BELGIE.

Wrong! You have to think like Rod! It's that 1 is shifted right and the other left.

I missed that one too, way back when.

Revstampman.....


Are you refering to the poor perfing ??

It is odd that the example here, without the engravers name, is the subvariety, with a cat. premium, but the next value, the 25 ultra, has the "with engraver's name" as the subvariety, with a bigger premium.

I guess there is no particular reason to expect consistency.

Revstampman is being cheeky, as usual

He meant that the image on each stamp had shifted left or right.
that was the difference between the two stamps
It wasn't the image that shifted but the perforator.

"Is it the wind that moves, grasshopper, or the flag?"

I wonder what else I am moving on in my "duplicates"
that is of value, that I am completely ignorant of?
I wonder when we get to heaven(presumably), we learn of all these mistakes

I imagine that someone will come up and slap you on your back and say, "thanks for that ripping inverted watermark, Rod...I was wondering how I was going to pay for the fifth year of my kid's schooling."

Before I used a Stanley Gibbons catalogue, I was unaware of tons of plate varieties and watermark "variations" that remain unlisted by Scott. If I didn't know that there was a possibility of an inverted watermark, I didn't check. (Okay, I know there is always a possibility...I mean a possibility previously confirmed by someone else with more time on their hands.)

Even so, I know I'm still missing all kinds of things. I'm sure it will be that way until I die...

C.