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Posted 11/28/2013   7:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add same to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
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Canada
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Posted 11/29/2013   01:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like a pink or light pink to me, on my monitor.

What are the choices and which catalogue is naming the colours lease?
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Posted 11/29/2013   04:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add same to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Dear puzzler
I hope that you see these links, as well as images of some stamps.
I have a lot of character Hermes top 40, but the color of this character is different.
http://home.comcast.net/~hermeshead...l_colors.htm

http://home.comcast.net/~hermesheads/hermes.htm






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Canada
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Posted 11/29/2013   3:00 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for the links and other pictures.

The first mentioned stamp is perhaps sun-faded a bit I am guessing. I am not familiar with Hermes heads enough myself though.

Reading a bit of the links I see that the papers changed throughout their production and also the shades.

It is so easy for older Canada red-like colours to fade due to the ink's pigments. Perhaps Greece had a similar problem with the lead in the inks then and the sulphers in the air reacting to them and ctaking off some of the ink. Which was then washed off by hydrogen peroxide? Just a thought. Unknow to me.
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Posted 11/29/2013   4:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Timm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The problem is that if you show your picture through 10 different monitors you'll see 10 different colors all just slightly different.
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