Help With Scott # 539 Canada

Can't wait to get my Unitrade Cat....Sounds like it is the Bible of Canadian Stamp collection....!!

lithograving: that seems like quite a stretch to infer that.

By that reasoning then, all missing colours, untagged errors, imperforates, etc. are "constant".

Those, and any double prints or "ghost" prints, etc. are certainly not constant.

I think we can also agree that there are many varieties listed in the Unitrade, which have been there for many years, which are not truely constant.

In the Unitrade, only those varieties that provide a pane position should be considered constant (I wonder if there is an exception to this?).

Perhaps . . .

Is this a plate variety or some kind of printing error?

Going again back to Unitrade's Introduction under Errors,Freaks and Oddities it mentions colours shifts which is basically what this ghost print is.

Therefore # 539i is more or less an EFO and not a plate
variety, whether constant, non-constant or inconstant.

lithograving, how can 2 different companies call the same stamp one constant and one non-constant, I don't understand..???

Wert, the difference is that the Darnell catalogue goes into more
details and examples than Unitrade when it comes to Canadian Varieties EFO'S,

Yikes lithograving...Another book to buy, when does it ever end...??? (haha)

Is it a really good book for varieties...???

Well, Darnell lists more varieties at least in the old 1997 version I have.

I'm not certain if they even still publish annually.
I did see a 2005 edition listed for sale online somewhere.

Your right lithograving...Searched the internet and found a place that has a 2005 Darnell, but could not find any newer ones...Guess they stop printing them.

Hi Wert

The 2012 edition of the Unitrade Catalogue has the 'ghost print' unchanged at $50.00

Chimo

Bujutsu

Bujutsu, yes, but some one said my colour shift was not good enough for the $50.00 value and it was only about $10.00.

When I look at the stamp in my hand and compare it to the example that lithograving posted, is exactly like mine...Oh well.

Also guys, here is another colour shift in Scott # 540, but I don't have a Unitrade Catalouge to see if it shows a colour shift in their book...Can anyone help...???

Pricing and variety (Gost prety much the same as for 539. I;d say this example is a "shadow" and not true second impression. (listed at 10$

Thanks for the info Gilles le timbre...Appreciate it.