648 Upu Centenary - Red Streak Variety

648 UPU Centenary - Red Streak Variety

Variety not listed in Unitrade but listed in Darnell catalog as 698-IN-1

consists of vertical red hairlines



detail



red hairline near left and right edge of detail image

nice example.....great scan

I agree, great scan

Hi bwdavis

There is another variety with these stamps of yours.

WISH IT WASN'T ME THAT FOUND IT..BUT HERE GOES.

Look at the circled areas of the two stamps....Two different colours....

The variegated blue colour is very common on this stamp mainly showing up on different light/dark blue shading of the wings and different areas of light and dark blue on the people surrounding the globe. A common variety from the past was the "paleface indian" variety where the face of the American Indian is in a light blue. I am going to submit a different topic showing some of these varieties.

Hi All

I think it is too straight to be 'hair lines' becasue they have a tendancyto be somewhat wavy in nature. What I think this is, is a 'doctor blade'.

In modern high-speed printing machines surplus ink is removed from the printing surface by a flexible steel blade, known as the doctor blade. This process can cause characteristic flaws on the printed stamps. Until worked out this can cause a non-constant flaw.

Hope this helps?

Chimo

Bujutsu

Unitrade lists the red streak variety as 648a and lists this variety at $5 mint never hinged.

648i in Unitrade

You are correct bwdavis....648i in Unitrade.

Sorry, read it wrong. You are correct 648i.

Hello

Great thread..fantastic pics and information from all..learning a lot here..I hope I'm not being rude but I found one of these stamps with the red line. Not as solid and straight of a line as bwdavis but a little different from it.

>> idaclare
Nice scan - looks like a copy with dark wings, uniform blue inking, no "paleface indian" variety and even inking within people around globe.

With pale red streak variety. Note - C in Canada in detail looks shaded? or doubled?

Looks like the red could be color shifted down a bit (margins above and below globe symbol not even)