Common Plate Varieties On Modern Canadian Stamps.

Unfortunately it's not mine.

I've seen quite a few of these for sale on various auction sites in the past month or so.

It was probably a full pane that went through twice.

1356 42 Cent Flag Over Hills


Fire in the Hills

Canada 92 - 1404 42 cent Montreal


Spotlight

Just a note of thanks to all those who have contributed in this discussion. Your enlargements and descriptions are far superior to what is in many catalogues and is proving most helpful as I sort through what material I've got on hand. Thank you all, most sincerely.

Karsh Queen Sc1162.
This variety is a blue dot above the tiara in the top margin.
It`s the same colour as the 37. I have not seen it reported
anywhere and I have 7 copies so it must be constant.

The 14c Parliament sheet stamp has 4 known varieties
and one that I found.
Sc 715v





715iii...`missing spire`
715iv...`missing brick`
715v...`light in window`
715viii...`closed blind`...dot in middle window





And this one...it appears to have an extra spire next to
the one that is sometimes missing. Also a mark near the front
spire.

Re: QEII, Scott 1162 (blue dot above crown)

I found 7 copies out of our 'hoard' of 1480 specimens.

alanl: how many stamps did you go through to find your 7 examples?

7 out of 1480 = 1 in 211 stamps. This implies that it is found on 1 stamp in 2 panes. Hmm?

When I visited the Archives in January 2008 I viewed the press sheet of this stamp. Here is a digitally re-created sheet (reduced for internet viewing; not shown are colour bars down the right side of the sheet).



This stamp was printed in 600 subjects per 'sheet' (not quite accurate as it is a continuous web printing, I believe).

If this 'blue dot' variety existed only once on the sheet of 600 subjects, then I should have only found 2.5 stamps in our hoard of 1480.

My 7 examples suggest that this variety occurs once per pane of 100.

Anyone have a full pane of this stamp to verify the varieties locaion?

Thanks for the great info on 1162, studystamps.
I spotted that blue dot back in the early 90s.
Since then I have gone through thousands of
Karsh Queens checking for tagging and nice cancels
and the dot. Stamps are mixed and I have no idea
how many 37s there are. Sorry.

5 cent John McCrae stamp has a stroke through
the first A of CANADA and a dot on top of the A.
Unitrade 487i.

Wildlife Conservation 37 cent Duck stamp
with `bug on leaf` variety.
Unitrade 1204i:

Siamese Twins variety...colour shift.
Unitrade 597a aiii.






A note in the Unitrade 2013 catalogue(page 187) located
with the Landscape colour shifts says "the listings
may be removed in the future".

My sheet of 1162 does not have any blue dots.

I have scanned the entire sheet and then scanned in quadrants.

what cost 37.00 and how did you save the block from the mail package?

I bought these on ebay. They are cancelled but never hinged.

Sc 660 with the `red thumb` variety.
Unitrade 660i.