3c Small Queen With Marking Ul Corner.

What do you make of the markings in the UL corner, kiss print or re-entry? Also looks like doubled lower frame line and tops of lettering. The 3's look doubled as well,or am I just seeing things?





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Hi Coinwatcher

The post 1890 printings of the Small Queens are notorious for over inking and other sloppy workmanship. The upper left margin ink is over-inking as is the apparent doubling of the design. Sorry, but this time I think you are just seeing things.
I have been studying Small Queens for 25+ years and can assure you that you will find hundreds of inking anomalies with the 2nd Ottawa printings (all values). I believe that the general lack of quality control in this period was one of the issues leading to the award of the printing contract to the Canadian Bank Note Company for the Maple Leaf and Numeral Issues that appeared in 1898.
GJP

Thanks GJP

Kind of a over inked kiss print. The paper used seems of lower quality also

It still was the American Bank Note Company (ABNC) Ottawa, Ontario which was a subsidiary of the American Bank Note Company (ABNC), New York, New York which again printed Canadian postage stamps from 1897 with the Diamond Jubilee Issue until the end of 1922 when its name was then changed to the Canadian Bank Note Company (CBNC) Ottawa, Ontario which was still a subsidiary of the American Bank Note Company (ABNC), New York, New York. This change in the name there also came along with the new introduction of dry intaglio printing that started gradually replacing wet intaglio printing, especially for the Admiral Issues and those Canadian Bank Note Company (CBNC) issues afterwards until intaglio printing was replaced many years later.

The letters are OK and the 3's are OK, over-inkng.

But, through the top of the C and E of CENTS and through the bottom of the first C of CANADA there are seemingly engraving cuts showing orangish ink. These would be mistakes in engraving or re-entries(?) if other stamps did not have these same varieties.





Better scans or clearer photos are need to see these clearly. Your zoomed in images are somewhat off from your zoomed out image of the entire stamp.

Your photos, nice as they are, are out of focus for such detailed work. You need to scan these at 300 to 600 dpi on a flatbed scanner to see in-focus and clear details please. Libraries have scanners at times.

I heard back from Bill Burden on this stamp and he said "I believe you have a very nice slip print from a dirty plate. I do not see any of the clear, sharp doubling required to indicate 're-entry'. Great stamp, but not constant."
Thanks to everyone on your opinions about this stamp.

If Bill Burden is commenting on Small Queens, I advise readers to pay attention. He really knows his stuff!
GJP

While we are on the topic of re-entries, I thought I would show this clipping (not one I am keeping). This strip of 4 was offered by Saskatoon Stamps in 2009 with the imprint. You can see the re-entry in the top of the word "CENTS"

Chimo

Bujutsu