#43 - Colour Identification

I'm trying to collect the colour variations of #43 (6¢ small queen). There are three listed: red brown, chocolate & chestnut.
Here are the stamps I have acquired: (in order #43, #43a, #43i)



Each was bought from a different though reliable ebay seller.
Now that I have them, my lack of experience has become apparent because I have difficulty in distinguishing them.
I would like to be reassured that I do have indeed the three colours.

a) Can such a determination be made from the uploaded image? (the best I can do)

b) If a savant from this august blog is willing to email me, I would gladly send this little packet to him for a quick check. Or is that asking too much?

Thanks for any help. Steve

Sak, at best your monitor and my monitor and every ones monitor tells a different story...Really would be a guess at this point..Do you have a colour guide booklet..?

Yeah. That's what I figured. I have no colour guide. I think I need to send them off to someone. They are low value and not worth "expertizing".

I'm sure that you're read this many times; It is next to impossible to assign accurate color names to images on computer monitors. All I can tell you is that you have three shades of the 6 cent Small Queen. I could also say that it looks as though you have them in the order that you named them, I would agree with your call that you have all three shades. Short of sending them to a expertizer....hopefully someone else will be able to help.

Thanks littleriverphil.

That's what I was thinking to..But we could be wrong.

I use a colour picker software that I can capture the colour of a known stamp, then it helps me identifier future colours..

Well, if two out of two experienced blogsters can see the colour variations, I'm satisfied.

Hi sak,

These are the colour variations that I have for this stamp issue:



I know that a colour cannot be fully determined from computer scans, however you should be able to determine colour variations. In comparing the colours of the stamps shown, yours are variations closer to 'chestnut'. Your chocolate is closer to red brown and your red brown is more chestnut and less brown.

Yeah, the chocolate shouldn't have any red in it, right?

Hi Sak,

Yes. Very little or no red in the chocolate.

Dang!

Sak, I hope that the following pages from my Small Queen collection help you a bit with your colour issue. I fear that with the colour and perforation variances I may further cloud an already confusing issue.

I am now finding that the best way to sort Small Queens is not by colour but by perforation. If you sort quantities by the perforation, you will find that the colours pretty much sort themselves.

The reference for my work is the book "Canada's Small Queens" by Ted Nixon and John Hillson and available only through the Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation. The book is currently out of print but we are expecting the second printing to arrive before March 13, 2015. This book is simply the best Small Queen reference in existence.

GJP

Hi everybody

I just reviewed the colours in my posting and find that I most likely have not helped much in the discussion. The colour reproduction isn't very good but I hope you get the idea.

GJP

You did good Garfield..Thanks for that info.

Thank you, Mr. Portch.
Alas, perhaps there's a nice dealer out there that will help me?

sak, I don't mind helping you out with this. I took the challenge and have wrestled with the small queens for the last few years. Fun stuff!


Anyway, I have quite a good collection and am pretty good at identifying the various printings, etc.

Gportch is correct in that the perforations are often the best guide. I also have the book he is referring to and it is indeed the best reference available.

If you want to send me the 3 that you have, I will look them over and if any are not what you were told they should be, I likely will have one for you.

We can then post the results here for reference.

Just e-mail me via this forum and we can work it out.