Canada C5 Air Mail Stamp

Mine has the complete five - nice find wert!

Thanks Ponso1...well out of more than 30+ stamps, we dont have a ""broken 5"" yet..keep looking for me everyone..thanks.

No broken 5 here either on my copy.

31+ stamps and counting...haha..Thanks for the inputs guys, guess I have the only "broken 5" stamp in the world..should put it on ebay for say, about $1,000,000.00...

Wert, I reserve 2 of them

koala...you wish....

wert : ok for $1,000,000.00

koala...for an old friend like you, I wont put it on ebay and you can have it for $500,000.00...just send a cheque....

Coming up

I'll have to join the chorus of the "normal 5" also in that my one used copy is quite normal. Excellent find ... excellent eyes!

Ok guys...34+ copies are normal...any one out there with a "broken 5", please post your findings..thanks.

Mark down 4 more normal copies here...

Wait a minute, let me get a toothpick and some Clorox...

OK, now I have one with a broken 5.

Me too... with my wife razor bladzzzzz

Now that you came up with this "error", I check all the curl at the bottom of the 5 of all the C5 I see in stamps show or stamps clubs... never know!

I haven't actively collected Canada in some time, but in examining your two scans, I have come up with a hypothesis - It is a re-entry.

For those not familiar with this term, a re-entry is another term for a repair to a damaged plate, usually only detectable in only one of the 200+ stamp images engraved on the plate.

As such, it will be rare, only one impression in the whole sheet would show the effect. In my experience, the key to identifying re-entries is to focus on the surrounding engraved lines to note any differences.

Exhibit A - The line under the date in the broken example, is much bolder, especially under the numbers 935.

Exhibit B - On the broken 5 copy, The lower curl of the number 3 is shorter (stubby). It practically touches the number 9 in the normal copy of the stamp

Exhibit C - ON the broken 5 copy, directly SE of the 5, there appears to be a dot above the bold line in the corner.

Other Exhibits? The yellow circles may be obscuring other possible hints that this is indeed a re-entry.