Color Variety Mozambique Company SC 116 3c?

I was mounting a recent acquisition of the 1918-1931 Mozambique Company definitive pictorials and noticed that the 3 centavos corn field stamp did not match the color of the Scott listing.

Scott lists the color as ocher and black. I do have a 3 centavos ocher & black, but the recently acquired 3 centavos appears to be orange and black.

I am wondering if any of the other world's catalogs (Stanly Gibbons for example) lists orange & black as a recognized color variety?

A scan of the two stamps is below. The ocher & black on the left with the orange & black on the right.

I realize the scans don't give a true color image, but I believe there is enough contrast to see the difference.

Any comments and opinions are welcome.

Don

Don ----Scott catalog states shades exist .Remember these stamps where effected by the war years and ink had to come from various sources during the years of 1918 to 1931, so various printings .

floortrader:

Well, I need to read the fine print more closely. A shade variation would be a plausible explanation. although in this case it looks like a color difference. Thanks for the info.

Guess I'll watch for other variations from this series. A side-by-side mounting of the various color variations would make an interesting page.

Don

Don,

My 2007 Michel lists 2 color varieties:

#144(1923), brownish yellow and black
#154(1925), orange and black

Both color varieties have same catalog value.

k

Yvert does the same as Michel...it breaks them into two separate series

jaune-brun/black, Yv#120, and orange/black Yv#154

Thanks, khj and Cjd. I think the stamp on the right side is an orange and black color variant.

Don

I would agree with that, based on the scan. If you gather a few more examples, postmark dates may be able to confirm it for you.