Canada Centennials Printing Varieties.

Nice pics alanl. Any spare airplane?

I have a problem getting a clear "cropped" (close up) picture when it's time to scan and crop the picture

Question : I scan with 600dpi (more pixels per inch) so I can get a nice and clear result after I crop. The result is not what I expect. The image is not as clear as the one you brought up with "the airplane"

I have an HP Photosmart C5180 all-in-one with an excellent video card (2Go memory). Maybe there is something I'm doing wrong

It's probably not the place for this kind of request, but I take a chance

I have only found one of the airplane so far but I will
keep you in mind.
I scan the whole stamp picture at 600 and the close-up
at 1200. I use a program called ImageMagick for cropping
and adjusting size.
Your pics do seem to be off colour and a bit rough.
My scanner is an HP scanjet 3570c which I got at a thrift
shop for 8 bucks. It came with the wallwart power supply,
usb cable and the CD. And it works!

Here`s the "moon over the library".

I'll do that, thanks

beautiful this moon.
I've been looking for her and for the "extra spire" through thousand stamps

If ever you have a double... I guess this is not the place to talk about trading so I won't talk about it.

I`ve only found one moon so far and no spires. I`ve looked at
16,000 sheet stamps. I still have 25,000 off paper to look at.
I think I should get busy!

On this one the poor queen has a hole in her head!
A black dot above the left eye.

That's a good one
I'm pretty busy with the Small Queens right now but I'll keep an eye open to my centennials. I have "seriously" sorted them up to the 3 cents and gathered the rest here and there.

Keep on showing your varieties... very interesting.

As soon as I found one, I will post it like this one here :

#459 extended frame lower right

Alanl, I forgot to thank you for your tip on how to get a clair numerisation close up

Your scans still don`t look right. I wonder if
you have the brightness set too high? Of course
i`m not an expert. I just plugged my scanner in
and used it.

This one is easy to find. Streaks across the forehead.
Note the right frame line, there`s lines streaking out
there as well.

Enjoying all the pics here. Made me look for some of my own. Here is one on the 4c.







Looks like the queen has a rash on her neck.

... maybe prince Phillips.. just a joke here!
Nice pic

#459 - Look at the C

1) bottom end of C, hook, looks like a baby bird's open mouth
2) same as 1) plus hook on upper end of C
3) as 1) plus orange dot under the C
4) here's the little devil orange dot under the cancel mark of 3)

alanl, do you have the "line through 5" variety #458piv W2B ?

Booklet - Left bar tag & Right bar tag