1859 17 Cents Scott #19 Re Entry

Thanks for looking.

Please can anybody confirm that this is plate position 80 re entry guideline through TS of cents and 7 bottom right etc.

If so is it Scott reference 19ii ?

Looks like it. I like the open frame in the bottom left also. If you go to http://www.re-entries.com/decimal_s...encents.html look at the plate proof block of 6 the top left corner one looks like this one with the open frame.

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Thanks Northener0

Do you mean top right on the proof block of 6 ? above position 100. Forgive my ignorance but was position does that make it ? and what Scott number would it have ?

Yes it was the top right of that block. I believe that it would be position 90 if the one below it was 100. In Unitrade they only list major re-entry position 5 and 100, I'm working of a 2008 Unitrade book so I might be listed in a newer one. The other thing about this stamp is that looking at it closer I don't think it's really a re-entry. I don't see any doubling of the letters or frame lines. What makes it interesting is that missing frame corner and the line through the 17.

God Bless Stamps and Beer.

Hi rooneydog,

This plate is known to have an unerased guide line on the right side of the plate that passes through most of the stamps in the right column (so stamps 10, 20 ... 80, 90). This line is angled slightly so that it passes through each stamp in the column at a different location of the design. I believe that the line does not actually reach position 100 and that the line traces on the right side of that stamp are related to the well-known re-entry and are not part of the guide line.

The position of the guide line on your stamp indicates that it must come from position 90. The break in the lower left frame line is also normal for that position. The guide line was used for the original layout of the plate and it not related to a re-entry.

Although your stamp represents a unique and constant variety with its unerased guide line at right and broken left frame line, it is not a re-entry and is not currently assigned a Scott number or catalogued in the Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps. Nice stamp though!

You can learn more about this stamp including the unerased guide line and other plate varieties on my website at:
http://flyspecker.com/19.html

Yours appears to be position 90. There is no re-entry just the guide line that runs down the right column of stamps through positions 10, 20(re-entry also), 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 (re-entry also), 90, and 100(re-entry also).

Many thanks all.

Excellent website Scottamer.