SC O45Ai - "High-Flying G" Overprint In Black

Unitrade indicates that the 20 cent Paper Industry G overprint SC045ai has a "high-flying G" variety. However, neither Unitrade nor Robin Harris' "adminware.ca" web site has an example or a description.

It would be appreciated if someone can provide a scan and a description of this variety.

This is the normal Flying G overprint in black

Subsidiary Information:
Other types of "G"
https://goscf.com/t/39024

Thanks rod222 for the link.

I must be more careful in my 'search' in future.

In that post, I mistakenly identified a normal "Flying G" for a "High-flying G".

Can anyone post and explain the "High-flying G"?

Blackjag,
there was this one, I could not retrieve the original pic.

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What about

I cannot see any difference.

https://www.arpinphilately.com/itm/...ndustry-1961

I toggled both your stamp, and the new one, they look identical.
The only difference is the "G" is higher up the stamp design,
surely that is not a "variety" ? If it is, then I guess you need to collect the variety as a pair.

Are you aware your stamp appears to have a flaw near the worker's right hand?

I've only been showing the normal "Flying G" in all of my posts.

I have no idea what the "High-Flying G" mentioned in Unitrade looks like. In my opinion, I don't think that it has anything to do with the G's positioning on a stamp.

The spot must have been something on the scanner as it does not appear on any of my O45 "G" stamps.

The following scan shows as the left two "G"s the ones from your vertical pair. The two right "G"s are from the horizontal pair.

All are enlarged at least 400 times.



I don't see any differences other than higher inking, specifically in the vertical pair.

i Would have expected the "high flying G" to be more than 1 mm higher than the normal....

The "high-flying G" does have to do with the position of the G itself and therefore the variety is collected in a pair.

The difference in position only occurs with the "Flying G" version of the overprint, hence the name of the variety.

The pair in the picture shows the right-hand G higher on the stamp than the left-hand G. This is often the case on the pair of stamps in the right margin. Sometimes the difference is more noticeable though. I have some in my collection, but don't have a scan handy.

3dadeo - Please post that scan when you locate it.

The two right side stamps have the high flying "G" overprint.

I noticed one of these for sale in upcoming Vance auction catalogue. Described as "O45ai, LR Block with the right two showing the High Flying G variety." No picture unfortunately.

???

rod222 and jogil have presented the High-flying G correctly in both pair and block of 4. Confirmed to me by Robin Harris (Editor of Unitrade).

Thanks to everyone for their input to my query.

Wow , stalzers caught the concorde and is in the statosphere. Too bad it was not in pair.

Mike

It is both surprising, and pleasing to get "follow up" information.
Well done you, Blackjag.

I would very much like to see this high flying G in a wider block or strip just to be certain that the sheet was not overprinted at an angle. In the examples shown it would have been very noticable acros the 5 stamps in the row. However looking at the plate blocks I have for this issue it seems that the G on column 2 is shifted up in relation to that in column but there is not much differene between columns 4 and 5. I do not have a complete row across the sheet which should give some more definate into about this topic. Does any one have on and if so is the G lower for column 3 that for column 2.

A follow up question is were the overprints applied to post office sheets of 50 or press sheets of 200. If the later only 1 in 4 of any position may show this variety.

AQ