Togo "1919" S.c. #20 3pf Brown - Double Impression - Catalog Number And Value Please

IMHO just a dirty plate

FYI - This is a "Misplaced Entry"

From which reference material was this information obtained?

After taking a second (more like tenth) look at it, I think I see why you are saying it is a double impression. Extra ink spots match quite nicely with some existing features of the stamp when shifted. So, is this an additional impression? Possibly. Is this a double impression? I would say No (just my opinion). As Partime says it is probably more like a kiss or slip print. Does it add value to the stamp? Maybe, but in my opinion it actually decreases the value. You have to give somebody a 10 min presentation to explain to them that this is an additional impression and not just a dirty plate, and they may still not be convinced. I don't even know how you were able to deduce that in the first place.

To me at least - it was easy to identify that the extra dots to the left of the ship matched the ship portholes in the original design. Then with the extra ribbon directly above the ships flag - I knew I had something amazing and something rare to investigate. It was rather a quick deduction after that - however, very difficult to demonstrate as scanning, layering, tracing, moving layers takes a lot of time.

Every stamp in every catalog I've seen rates double impressions higher in value that regular stamps. This raises the stamps value significantly. It may be a one of a kind.

THIS. IS. NOT. A. DOUBLE. IMPRESSION.

PERIOD.

I agree this is a kiss imprint.

To little ol' me a double impression should not be a subject of debate. It should be readily apparent and indisputable.

Agreed 100%.

You should be able to tell something is a double impression or kiss impression at a glance. It shouldn't require parsing individual ink dots.

For reference/comparison purposes, these are actual double impressions (sheet going through press twice) or kiss impressions (paper bouncing twice on the same pass). It's a semantic distinction, as the market treats double and kiss impressions as the same thing and major catalogs do not differentiate between the two forms:

Last stamp pictured - Mr. Dewitt gives the distinct impression of suffering from a bad hangover.

I'm settling with "Misplaced Entry". And yes these types of stamps require careful examination and aren't easily discovered.

https://re-entries.com/terms.html#mispl

Once again, you start out with a double entry. As pointed out before and illustrated by revenuecollector, a double entry is when a sheet gets printed twice. In such case, unless 99% of the second attempt to print the sheet is with a dry plate and the guy inserting the sheet misses the guide marks by a huge margin, this causes a full doubling of the image and close to the original, not offset half the width of a stamp.

If you cannot get us to agree it is a double entry, you start to claim it is a re-entry. That also was pointed out to you causes a constant flaw on a plate and should occur on all stamps printed from the same plate in the same sheet position, not just on the ultimate sheet printed with the plate that found its way to you. Considering how far (almost half the width of the stamp) the re-entry is off-the-mark, the guy performing the re-entry and the quality control officer missing the huge mess the former made of his job must have been drunk and high as a kite to miss this. And thereafter, the whole board of the printing firm must have thought "meh!" for this to be a re-entry.

When you start posting links to websites to tutor us about re-entries, know what you are talking about. Re-entries do not shift half the width of a stamp.

Many people called it, it is a transfer from a sheet or part of the press that had a wet set-off image.




I suppose he performed the re-entry.

I think he's just making sh*t up as he goes along. We're being trolled.

IMO, this is another example of a "one of a kind" rarity from a true believer.

There is no amount of evidence to the contrary that will alter this mindset.

And hence I'm sure it will be listed on eBay as some rarity that isn't mentioned in any reference material.