Some Postage Stamps I Think It's Variety.

Some postage stamps I think it's Variety.

The first two stamps ( New Zealand and South Africa ) look like they have been scratched by postal machinery or maybe something else that disturbed the surface.
The 10 ore Swedish stamp looks like it has a plate scratch on the forehead - what you see in the chin I do not know. We might need a sharper picture?
The next stamps need some sort of description as to what you think is wrong.
The last two stamps look very bleached out either chemically or by sunlight.


Peter

These stamps are well preserved in the album 35 years ago, the sun is not the reason, and I am sure the difference in color
Thank

Some very interesting stamps. What is the question?

Whoa.....slow down. Perhaps keeping it to 2 - 3 stamps per thread will get you some answers. Don't even know where to start with that many stamps. The Southern Rhodesia Admirals look normal, and the US 24¢ Jenny is known as the "Fast plane" variety.

Hard to keep up... but the last pair of stamps ( assuming no more appears before this message) is easily explained. 1st stamp is a very dirty version of SG 467 violet printed pre-WW2). 2nd stamp is SG 490 pale violet (printed during WW2 with lighter colors).

looks like we have a speciaized collection that was put up '30+' years ago. I like tbe inverted centers. I agree with above, you got to post a few pictures at a time..several look like staining from soaking....nice pictures..wait for more responces..

Just posting more. One of the French stamps is a known variety, where the last "e" of francaise is damaged.
Several of the others are just dirty or scraped off, nothing special.


Peter

Many of these (such as the Honduran stamp above) look as though they have been dinged, or scraped through rough handling at some point through the years.

Concerning the Swedish stamp, it is printed by photogravure, I believe. Photogravure plates tend to get scratches, particularly when they are used for large print runs, such as this stamp had. Usually these flaws are not cataloged, but I am not a Sweden specialist so I cannot say for sure.

If you use the Stamp Community Forum "search" feature at the top of this page (type in "plate flaw") you will access some good information concerning stamp varieties.

Under this "stamp bombing", I just can say that the specialised Edifil catalog,do not say nothing about printing mistakes on the shown (Alfonso XIII) stamps. Aside from the awful centering, typical of Spanish stamps of that time.

Please do not cross post, this stamp was discussed in detail in this thread
https://goscf.com/t/28809
Don