I was going along my merry way, assuming that this stamp was a #87 and I decided to check the watermark to be certain and what do you know? The watermark is #25 - spray of roses! Doesn't that make this stamp a #65 or am I missing something? Also - is it missing the perfs on the left side because of plate position or was this poor little thing butchered??
Also - the color of this is showing up more "brownish" on my monitor when it's actually much more orange and very close to the Salmon color on the Stanley Gibbons Colour Key!
If you were thinking that the position letters might indicate a wing copy, that's possible for the surface-printed issues, but even wing copies were perforated all around.
Wing copies for this issue (S.G. #151) have the letters D, E, H, or I at lower-right, and Gibbons calls its color "orange-brown".
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Posted 07/18/2013 6:41 pm
