Canada 1898 Numeral Issue.

Hi to all
Has anyone else seen of know of this variety.
Between the "N" and "T" of cents on the three cent stamp I have found one with a hyphen.

It is quite visible with the naked eye

I have examined it with a Gemmological Microscope it is not thinning.

All comments welcome.
Regards,
Horamakhet.

Horamkhet, that is very interesting. I checked a half dozen copies that I have in my stock books but none display the anomaly you have discovered in yours. I checked my Unitrade catalogue and there is no mention of it.

Not a constant error so likely a printing blemish of sorts . Unfortunatly these are seldomly worth more and usually less desirable for some reason. One to definatly put a star beside in your collection. I always thought that occasional printing errors and oddities are far more rare and should command far higher prices .

Hi Mhc99 and nitrolures


Thank you for you information.

I agree, I think that the occasional printing errors and oddities should command higher prices.
I believe that if items like this were tested in specialist auctions they would bring a premium, but I am collecting because I love it. I am making a notated album of oddities and varieties that I find.

I have included a picture of another one, this time a colour shift. I think this is Unitrade 721.
The one on the right shows a very noticeable colour shift in the pine cones, but is not listed in Unitrade probably for the reason suggested by Nitrolures.
Regards

Horamakhet

I also see a minor extention of the lower right numeral frame, and what appears to be a slight doubling/line in the N of cents. This may indicate a minor re-entry. Larger scan would help to confirm.

Hi Gilles le timbre

Unfortunately that is the largest scan that I can do on my scanner.

Regards,
Horamakhet

Unitrade does not list either the 78 dash between T and N of CENTS or 721 red colour shift varieties shown above.

Great looking Canada Scott#78. Hopefully someone will have more to say about the hyphen feature. My colourful little 1991 Scott Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps shows the issue date for each set throughout but fails to show 1898 in the heading for the Queen Victoria "Numeral Issue". Was this this just neglect or is there a reason for it? I haven't been staying awake at nights fretting about this but would like to further my education.

My opinion is that it was an inclusion or a sliver of paper (or something similar) that flaked away after the ink dried.

There are all sorts of terms we could use to describe this, but the bottom line is that it's a flaw, not an error. The fact that it appears in that location is merely a coincidence.

Personally, I would treat this like any other inclusion or ink flaw ... as less desirable (and less valuable).

Brian

That whole definitive set is plagued with colour shifts even more dramatic - they are extremely common. Even a Canadian definitive specialist like myself has very little interest in these.




Definitely not, unless far more dramatic a shift, say 5 to 10mm off. Even then, I have seen them sell for very little (for this series).

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Thought I would bump this thread by slipping this note in from an old issue of BNA Topics (1967) relating to an "ink splash" on the "c" of cents on a Canada Scott#76 1898 2 cent Queen Victoria purple numeral stamp.

Good point cynical. If more copies show up, then it becomes more interesting.

Definitely looks like an inclusion\debris that was on the paper during printing that fell off. Kind of funny that it happens to be right where it would look like a dash though.