Italy Scott # 23 Type I And II

Do I have these correct? Although the line under the Q is unbroken, it's still uneven

Type I ?



Type II ?



Thanks

I believe your Type I may actually be a Type II with the solid-line-under-Q flaw found at position 9. (If I'm right about that, you have the one position* of Type II where a primary Type-II spotting feature of a broken line doesn't apply.)

I believe your example identified as Type II has a closed C unlike any of the Type IIs.

Tony Clayton has done super work on this issue, available online here:

http://www.italianstamps.co.uk/king...e/index.html

The linked page shows more differences for distinguishing the Types, and then there are more pages for plating them.

*There were 25 subjects printed four up to make sheets of 100, so "position" 9 would appear 4 times out of 100. "Position" probably isn't exactly the correct terminology, in this case.

By the way, I'm no expert on these, and I'm happy to be corrected.

Thank you Cjd

That gives me a few other identifiers to work with. I've seen that site before but forgot about it

thanks very much

Looks like I had them backwards. According to the site, the line extending from oval in POSTALE is only in type 1 and that one has it:



and the other does not:



again, great site - that made it easy

thanks again

Awesome link Cjd.

Much appreciated.

Regards,
Stampalotapus