#25 Strands Of Hair ????

Hi guys,

While doing my #25 study, I found this one with what look to be a ''strands of hair'' ...

Well there is many other weird things in the stamp such as doubling looking like a re entry here and there and a very weird shape of the UR number 3.

Any opinion?


Also , I am a bit colors blinds and have very hard time with shades, so can you guys confirm me the ''strand of hair'' is the same color?

Picture down here (Left the ''says stamp'' and right a Normal one.





Here the ''stand of hair''










Jimi

Jimi, the strand of hair could very well be just that. But, I find more often that it is a piece of wood fiber in the paper. Reason I say that is because I have several examples of hairs on the stamp and they usually are dark ( i.e. not the same color as the stamp's ink ). A sliver of wood fiber would soak up some of the ink and tend to be the same color as the stamp.

Peter

I'm not aware of any SC25 with a strand of hair variety, so Peter4522 could be correct, but I'm certainly not an expert on these early stamps.

No one were aware of a No25 with a re-entry on the left, and I found 2 copy of this new Re-entry variety :) So now I m never sure when I found something new.

The strand of hair seems two have two colors. The correct color on top and yellowish towards the bottom. Wood fiber could explain it although I am not convinced. Some of the other marks you show look good. Could you show me a close-up of the lower left around the T of three ? There are re-entries on this stamp but they are not well documented and known. Horace Harrison reported at least six re-entries on this stamp including a major one. I have one that you can see here :

And here is a clean copy of Scott 25 that may have a re-entry where the blue arrows are pointing..??

Or could be normal.

Robert







ALSO THESE 3 STREAKS.

Thx for spoting me that one Coriante and thx for helping me about the color of the Strand of hair. I have very hard time with shade this is why i'm in re-entry and not color shade hehehe.

As we seen, both re-entry I found on 25 were ''twisted re entry'' I think this one is not different

As you spotted the Lower left corner, I did check with UR corner and we have a good conclusion, it is a twister re-entry same as others; toward clockwise.





as well as the Clear doubling in T of ''POSTAGE'' showing twisting in the same direction and it could explain the weird shaper of the UR number 3




I think I have a new winner here, now time to found another copy!

Re-entry on Large queen 25 are pretty are to spot due to the twisting way and stamp color, re-entry seem to merge into the stamp design making them very hard to spot. But I found 2 different, maybe a 3rd here and I won't stop till I found them all!

Jimi

Wert,
Think you can make a better close up of oval around queen? It is hard to see if the circle is doubled or not.

Here a close up of one of my normal copy, and they look pretty much the same.





Jimi

Coriandre, I just found the same re-entry as your but your copy is cleaner because mine having a killer cancel But it is on rare Soft White blotting paper!

Here the new beauty





A closer look of the many re-entry on this stamp


Classic UR corner line mergin in UR number 3



Left side of TH of THREE




Bottom of R of THREE (there is maybe more re-entry in EE but killer cancel make it hard to see)




And finally, The LR doubling ''like a hook'', doubling in CENTS and a small little doubling in lower border frame



there is seem to have doubling in POSTAGE too but again, because of the killer cancel, it is harde to see. We can notice it in ''S'' of POSTAGE

Enjoy :)

Jimi

Yes, that is the same re-entry. The sure sign is the double hook on the bottom right corner

The "Strand of Hair" looks like a plate scratch to me. It is not listed in Duckworth's so likely appeared for a short time only - nice find. There are alot of various varieties that I have found on the 3c LQ, some I have posted on this site. A very interesting stamp in that regard and great for this kind of research and collecting joy.

I also agree with the re-entry in the lower right corner. Here are a couple of scans of Duckworth's book showing his description and drawings on some of the re-entries that he has found on the 3c Large Queen. By the way he is talking, he seems to think there are other re-entries on this stamp that are still unfound.

Sorry, the drawing scan seems to always tilt to the right even though it is upright on my PC.

Thanks Jimjung, I have this article in my possession, and I have yet found a new re-entry with complete doubling on left side. It will appear in the next Dot and Scratch Newsletter here the link to the topic : https://goscf.com/t/49544

So you are thinking about a plate scratch? I didn't tough about that, so time to find another copy!

Jimi

Here is an Example of a Plate Scratch on the 2c Large Queen. The tiny scratch is horizontal on the neck area. From the Imprint in the lower margin I plate this at position 95. There is a 2nd copy below to verify constancy.

Jimjung, I think you are missing the must important part of this plate scratch in D od ''canada''





Very nice catch!

Jimi

This one has a strand of hair on her chin....

Gilles, That is a well known plate flaw known as the "shaving nick" variety. See write-up at flyspecker.com.

Mike