Germany ---Scott 17 ----Right "One " Is Slanted

Somebody with good eyesight does the lower stamp has a slanted number 1 on the right side ?

Yes, it does look like the top of the numeral "leans" to the right. But to be positive, measure it from the side of the stamp design to the side of the numeral, top and bottom, and you should be able to see a difference, maybe 1/2mm ( if that much)

This series has been studied in depth for a long period. Michel's handbook/catalog on the series shows all known plate varieties, and there is no such variety. The '1' does look a little mis-shapened, but this is not unusual for these stamps. This would be called a printing error or freak, and not a constant printing error (plate flaw) associated with a specific plate position. Note that on your comparison stamp, there is a red blob below the 'N' of groschen. This is also a printing freak, and not a plate flaw. To study these stamps, you need the Michel-Handbuch-Katalog Plattenfehler auf den Brustschild-Marken Deutsches Reich 1872-1874. Find Werner Zielnewicz (spelling?) on the internet. He's a good source for Germany area study materials. If he doesn't carry a book, he can find it for you.

Hi Floortrader. You brought up this topic a little while ago:

https://goscf.com/t/35805#35805

I still don't know the answer, but none of my copies look like that.

Thanks Partime ,it has been laying around for a long time and didn't remember posting it .

BOOKBNDRBOR -----I have to disagree with your statement ---Michael shows all known plate varieties and there is no such variety. There is always a chance damage was done to a plate and not every copy printed will have the flaw , such as a later printing and it was caught and corrected during printing .

I'd be more interested in the cancel. Looks like a nice 'horseshoe'.

floortrader...It is not quite slanted..Lets think logical here..Look at both side by side..Look where the blue arrows are pointing...4 vertical lines between the numeral and the frame...If one was slanted don't you think it would be closer or even cover the 4th vertical line..?

I think we are also seeing an illusion of a "slant" caused by the bottom of the one. Here, I took one of my copies and zoomed in quite a bit. I tried to draw some lines that are not so parallel.



By-the-way, my version has a missing line in the H and an extra line up higher. Probably a listed variety ??

the broken H is listed in Mi. Deutschland Spezial
Mi #19 XI -H in `Groschen`gebrochen sowie sichelfoermiger Schraubenkopfaudruck (Feld 150)

Thanks Wadmalatz.

I took the original image and rotated it to make the top stamp fully upright (2% change). It looks to me like the '!' isn't slanted.