Ivory Thin On #25? I'm Confused...

Hi Gentlemen,

I have this Large queen #25 which I first tought being Paper #6 Soft Blotting but after closing look I found out that the paper was thinner than my other Soft blotting and there seem to have horizontal mesh (hard to see, but there).

The stamp is no way close of being a Paper 10 as I have many exemple of paper 10 to compaire with.

The stamp is incredibly white and I think, correspond to Ivory Thin paper, the only problem, is that no #25 on Ivory thin were reported according to Unitrade.

Description Of ivory Thin From Canadian Philately:

''The distinguising characteristic of this paper is how white it appears in comparison to papers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. There is some horizontal mesh, although it is much less obvious than in the other papers just mentioned. Finally, it is thin, just like papers 1 and 2, measuring 0.0025". It is a fairly scarce paper that is only found on the 1c, 2c, 6c and 12.5c values''


So I am a bit confused

any tought on that?





Thanks for your help,

Jimi

I suggest you soak it in water. If it is horizontally meshed paper it will curl top to bottom. If it is vertically meshed it will curl side to side. This occurs immediately and then the stamp should flatten out. That would confirm which paper mesh you have. If you think it is the thin ivory white paper you can always send it to the VG Greene Foundation for certification. I don't see the design of the stamp showing through the paper from the back which I would expect would show if it was on very thin paper but that could be a scanner setting problem.

Just did the waker soak test, and the stamp is immediately curved at top and bottom, so it is horizontally meshed, as for the design, I did look at other stamp (#27) on this paper (7) and I barly only see the border or Canada Post through it, maybe because the stamp is red and #27 is brown.

but it do not look the same as Paper 7 on #27...

The thing that bug me is how extremly white the paper is and thinner than paper #6 with the same kind of soft feeling on touch, I don't see what els it could be...

Papers are a real pain...

Jimi

Well I think it is just White soft blotting paper as I notice this information on Canadian Philately :

''It creases quite easily, as it is a brittle paper and stamps printed on this paper often have short perforations or unpunched or incompletely punched perforations, with "confetti" adhering to the perforations''

But I still find it very thin for a soft blotting... weird...

as we can see..