New Member - New Colour

Hi all - I'm a brand new member and I am looking forward to using this forum to seek answers to some philatelic questions. So I may as well start with my first post. I found this copy of Canada #1375 (the Court House, Yorkton) and realized when sorting it with others that it is an odd colour. I am aware "changelings" occur sometimes. Has anyone come across this variant?



Thanks in advance for any insight -

If it would be for me, the stamp would go there...

Same stamp, same value - different color..

https://www.stampcommunity.org/topi...LY_ID=193028

Great colour difference! To me the one on the left even seems different than the ones I'm used to. Slightly darker.

Could be missing color, or changed color. (stating the obvious)

Without including errors in printing, there are three main variations of this stamp:

Scott 1375
Scott 1375i
Scott 1375b

They vary depending on their perforations (14.6x14 and 13.3x13) and the central brown facade glowing copper under a UV light).

I have found that the Scott 1375i has colour variations like this shown more often, and has a higher catalogue value

Thanks for ideas so far on the odd-colour 1375. The two stamps in the scan both have a metallic glow under UV light, though I would say more "brass" or "gold" than "copper" on both. Since it is not listed in catalogues I use, I suspect it is a one-off, changed colour or something. It is otherwise very fresh

Hi StrayFeathers, and welcome.
While I don't collect 'modern' Canadian such as these I'm finding this thread interesting.
Neither Unitrade or Scott's lists the colour variation you've got here, but the background colour of your brown stamp (on right) seems quite similar to the background colour of the $2 Provincial Normal School stamp of the same issue.
A change of colour, chemically or otherwise seems the logical explanation but..and there's always a but... the colours on the building in your brown stamp don't seem to be effected at all. You'd think if the stamp were exposed to some element that is going to change the colour, ALL the colours would change.
Curiouser and curiouser.

jamesw,

I saw cases where only one color has changed. Some color are more prompt to color change (I think blue is one of those). It might be the ink composition or maybe the pigment used. Look at this image:


The blue has change while the rest is virtually the same. I have been told that as a color change, it has no premium value at all. In fact, it become "less desirable". I am no expert, I just tell you what I have been told.

Stray Feathers...Checked my 2012 Unitrade and there is a stamp called 1375a "Dark blue inscriptions omitted"..Value $2000.00 NH-VF...That is probably not what you are looking at though.

Unitrade says there were 2 printings...Feb.21.1994 and Feb.20.1995

P.S.-

Welcome to the forum Stray Feathers

I have a few colour variations myself but don't actively persue them per se.

The scans shown here are quite interesting

Chimo

Bujutsu

Could it be a case of 'fugitive ink'?

Welcome Stray Feathers. What a start

I've been here since 2-3 weeks and learned a lot just reading and participating to some discussions.
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