This Can't Be A 37B Or 37d.

Hi guys..Take a look at this stamp on the left..I scanned it and took a picture of it..Now I don;t know what a 37b or 37d really looks like, but the colour is odd.

Robert

Second pic looks like cinnabar?

http://www.stampworld.com/en/stamps/Canada/

Never heard of a colour called cinnabar...Not in the Unitrade catalogue..

Robert

Are the perfs 12.5?

Could it be a changeling?

Peter

issued in 1870 (37b and 37d) yours has 1888 cancel

My picture is my own #37d

It looks like you have a shade of #37 and the other a shade of #41.

Robert,
Did you apply any filtering to the first two images?
Don

It measures 12.4 x 12.5

Don..I did adjust the first picture just a hair for clarity.

Robert

Hi Robert. Here is my take. As Don has always said, the image depends on the scanner and the viewers monitor.

Forget the photo. From what I see on my monitor on your scan, the right is an obvious #41 (bright vermillion). The flag cancel which was used in the late 90's confirms it. The left is a late Montreal printing of #37, as the Feb 1988 date would indicate. The shade is hard to say, because it may have some oxidization. If no oxidation it is probably rather late usage of a dull red. But my thought if you give it a bit of peroxide it may become more orange.

Brian

Also, the stamp on the left cannot be perf. 12.5, it is the same as the perf 12.0 on the right.

Hutin, on my monitor yours looks more Rose than Copper red. I don't doubt that it is copper red, it just goes to show how inaccurate colours are on the internet.

BeeSee..The stamp on the left, I measured it 3 times and got the same perf reading..Don"t know what to tell you my friend.

Ah, ok, I will just call it a normal 37 then..Thanks for your guys help.

Robert

Robert, I still do not have a grip on what the "copper red" or "indian red" shade looks like. I have never seen one "live", only scans, and they all seem different to me.

Hutin, (or anyone else) if you also have the rose, orange-red and dull red shades, would you be able to scan them all together? That would at least help visually to see the difference.

Good idea BeeSee...Maybe we can get some one who has one to post..I have a friend who is extremely big in stamps and is well know, I will talk to him Monday to see if he has one...He has got a couple of 12penny stamps..Surly he has a copper small queen.

In the mean time, please post your stamps...Thanks.

Robert