I.d. An Odd Admiral?

This stamp was included in a drive-by posting placed earlier today for a Canada lot being sold on ebay...rather than giving more time to the topic (which is probably not long for this world) and additional publicity to the listing, I picked out a scan of an item I didn't recognize...what is this? Have I just missed this in the catalogue?



Thanks for looking.

It's an admiral, probably #107 (yellow green) that looks like it had been soaked off of a red envelope. I don't often say this but...trash it (if it were yours that is).

OMG... it's PINK!!

Cjd

If you go to trash it, I will give you my mailing address to trash it to (ha,a)

It is an item in a "very valuable" lot that has zero chance of becoming mine.

I've heard about the hazards of soaking with colored envelopes, but I had no idea the color change could be so thorough. When I've seen the results of color bleeding, they have looked much more like pinkish tints. This sort of leaps off the page. And not in a good way.

Thanks for looking. I'm glad to hear that I haven't been overlooking something all this time.

It certainly does leap off the page. That's why I think it is the 2c green and not the 2c carmine (#106) issue. The green and the pink from the envelope have combined to make a sickly grey black colour. Really stands out.

Cjd

If it was on a red envelope and the stamp was green, it would turn a BROWN colour, not pink.

To make a pink stamp, it would have to be a red stamp on a white envelope.

No, it's the red dye in the envelope which is running. The inks on the stamps are more colour fast, which means they are set or permanent. The red ink of the envelope stains the white of the stamp. But Green and Red are what we call complimentary colours, which means that they balance each other out. A combination of red and green will create a neutral grey. If the stamp were a carmine #106 the stamps ink would have still appeared red, though probably muddied.

But really, whoever attempted to soak that stamp must have left it there for quite a while (or it must have been a seriously fugitive ink.

Either that or it was soaked in warm water.

If you must soak stamps on colored envelopes, then soak stamps on red and green color paper separately from the rest of the batch and make sure you use cold water. Green is nowhere as bad as red.

^^ Words to live by! Soaking off of red envelopes must definitely be done alone and in the cold. (I suppose a little cold water tide, to clean as well as lift).

...and trim as close to the perfs as possible.

And use sandpaper to reduce the paper thickness by half.

(Okay, I was kidding about the last part.)

Yikes cynical

Just went to the garage to get sand paper, and glad I looked at the post again before I started....(ha,ha)

If you're careful with the sanding, you don't really need to soak.

Mark my words, some day this will be the preferred method for dealing with the self-adhesives.

CJD, ha, ha, sanding no, but with some papers you can see definite layers and these sometimes peel back successfully.
I think the modern self adhesives are a pain, I rarely have success with these.
(Sorry going off subject, but have there been previous posts on these?)
Regards.

Hi Cjd

For me personally, that is a stamp I would pass in a blink of an eye.

It is not a variety, and, as suggested earlier, is nothing more than a stamp that was soaked from a red envelope that had the ink run. Too bad really because this makes the stamp worthless - my opinion of course.

Chimo

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