How Would You Describe Those Imperfections? Common Or Very Unusual?

ok, so:

- The germen ones (red), is there a way how to know which one I got?
- The 1k Russian, they don't look a like and the stamp on the right has got some weird shades and sometimes it looks like the crown was throwing shade
- the 1st 2 Austrian, is there perfs ok?
- The 2nd 2 Austrian, should they be having this color difference, or not?
- The last 4 germen have, hmmm just wondering if you see any issues or differences.

Thanks in advance

Robi13, we are not goin to be able to help you with those tiny thumbnail scans. You really need to scan the stamps individually at 1200 dpi, then crop the blank area around the stamp. Scanning on a black background will also help show the perfs better.

Then you will be a ble to post something like this which brings out the details of the stamp.

Hi Stallzer, I changed it based on your recommendation, so hope its better now?

Yep. Much better now. Only problem is, you just show a bunch of stuff without any comments. And way too many pictures - if you post one or two it is easier to get a grip on thing.
Having said that, I really do not see anything that stands out. Just mostly common varieties. I think I already told you in another post that the blue Russian stamp has a broken piece on the plate. The other blue Russian has some ink missing in places - may just be under inked.

Peter

Have a look please, I just updated the post with the questions I am interested in. thanks

Each of the two overprinted imperial Russian orange one kopeck stamps has two surcharges.

The first one, the diagonal "4 PARA", was used on stamps for the Russian postal agencies in the Turkish EMpire before the first world war. These agencies closed in 1914.

The second one, "ROPiT" and "4 (or 5) pi" was created in an attempt to reopen these agencies in 1918 but this came to nothing and the stamps were never issued in this state.

"ROPiT" is an abbreviation for "Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company", a major Russian shipping company.

I think you may be seeing the effect of the dark background under the stamps seen through the watermark on these stamps. if you hold them up to the light you should see the watermark clearly.

Hi Nigelc.

Thanks a lot for your much appreciated input, I really see something other than the simple two wmk lines on those stamps and I'm getting a bit crazy from those two stamps.

Hi Robi13,

The watermark on these stamps is not just two lines. It consists of vertical straight lines, horizontal wavy lines and the initials of the state printing house.

Here's a picture I found using Google that shows the watermark:



A single stamp will have just a small part of this watermark.

Yeah I understand that, and I have one curvy line crossing the whole stamp and small part of the other curvy one. What I see is like a light doubl print or sort of shapes that som how got on the paper of the stamp before final printing toke place.

Are you sure you are not seeing part of the initials in the watermark?