A Question On A Admiral Block Please

Is this a 128a . Looking at unitrade catalog they mention a I which is a wet printing how do I tell the differance thanks for any answers you might have. I have finished my Jubilees and now moving onto the admirals this is going to be fun.

Irishjack, in the Unitrade Specialized Canada Catalogue on page 25 in my 2010 edition under the heading of Paper, it covers wet printing on Admiral issues. The following sentence will be of help: "The wet printings were usually made with the stamp design running vertically along the grain and copies are noticeably narrower than those from dry printings because the dampened paper shrank slightly as it dried."

Thanks mch99 I just won a lot today and this was in the lot so will have to wait a week or so I do have plenty of used admirals to do a comparison to some thing to look forward to

Irishjack, my pleasure to help a collector from the province east of mine. You might also like to check out the following thread:
https://goscf.com/t/12425
Regards
Mike

One of the easiest methord of determining wet or dry printing is to look at the gummed side. On dry printings the impression of the plate can be seen in the gum. On wet printings, the gum is smooth because it is not applied until the sheet has dried and it fills in the plate impression.

GJP

Thanks thats a good tip

Well, it might also indicate that the stamp have been regummed... The best way is to compare the width of the stamp with one of the same series that have been confirmed to be WET or DRY printing...