Does Anyone Have This Stamp...???

Hi guys
Does anyone have this stamp so they can tell me if what I see on the letters "1939" is normal.

There are lines through it and this is a VF-NH stamp with gum.

Don't have another one to go by, and Unitrade doesn't show anything.

Simply a mis-registration,
the black vignette should sit higher
leaving a clear 1939.

Hi rod222
Do you think it would be classified as a variety or just ignore it all together...???

It is an interesting variety but not very prized by collectors. This series of three stamps was the first foray into bi-colour printing on stamps that Canada Post made and there are many varieties of this misregistration of the black or brown.

One way to collect them is to see how many steps are showing at the base of the monument, I think I saw an ebay listing that had 7 or 8 different ones.

Here is a pic I saved from ebay of one with the black shifted in the upwards direction compared to yours shifted downwards. Note the top of the statue almost touching the arch and the steps free of the bottom brown outline.

It falls mostly into the "flyspecking" category. Not to be ignored if you like that kind of thing! The misregistration on this issue is bad enough that the number of stairs that can be seen on the War Memorial varies from 8 or 9 to 14 or 15. I saw a great little exhibit at a local show last year that showed the step-by-step increase of the print shift. If I recall correctly, all of the stamps in the exhibit were purchased for under $20.00 CDN. All were MNH.

Peter

Darnell E.F.O. 2005 catalogue lists this one but using a more extreme black colour shift to make the steps disappear into the brown. Variety named "missing steps" Value $10.00 pr. I own one similar to yours the I collected a long time ago.

Thanks...Puzzler...petermac...and bwdavis for the information.
Didn't realize it was the steps I was looking at...My stamp then only shows 3 1/2 steps..Correct...?

Well, as you can see, classified as a "variety"
they don't do much for me, all my 3 examples were
mis registered as yours.
Yet a small variety in Travancore stamps and I go into
paroxysms of delight.
All depends what blows your hair back.
Seems valuable when only mis registered in the extreme.

Shifted downward a bit must be common. All stamps in my overstock book are shifted downward (not as much as yours) and all are the same. I have more shifted stamps than properly centered stamps

There is one known variety on this stamp regarding the doubling of some of the horizontal lines at bottom. see http://www.re-entries.com/post_medallions.html for a view. I don't think yours is the re-entry, but it is always good to be aware of its existence in your pursuit of varieties