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1935 Yugoslavia Stamp In Wrong Color?

 
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Posted 10/18/2018   1:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add restoman to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I am a long-time collector, but new to this forum. This stamp was part of a large collection I purchased. On the left is Yugoslavia Sc # 119, the King Peter II definitive of 1935, 1 Dinar in brown red. The right stamp appears to be # 119 in the wrong color. What do I have here? Any help is appreciated.
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Posted 10/18/2018   2:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pnjstamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The only thing I could find was a reference at this webpage about the color of the 1D stamp changing to green when exposed to moisture:

https://worldstampsproject.org/yugo...s-varieties/

Sounds to me like that is what you have. I've never seen it before but maybe a Yugoslav expert can shed more light.

Joe
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Posted 10/18/2018   2:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bailoo1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Indeed this is a misprint it could have happened when the ink from another printer producing the lime green stamp got mixed up with this stamp
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Posted 10/18/2018   2:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I've never seen this total colour change,though partial changes are common.

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Posted 10/18/2018   8:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Agree with Vayolene,
I have a bunch of these ..... "Chemical or Light damage"
I too, have never seen a full green before.

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Posted 10/19/2018   12:49 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add restoman to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks to all of you for helping solve this mystery! Just out of curiosity, I tried soaking my brown red copy in warm water for nearly an hour to see if the color would change at all. It did not. My guess is that some (but not all) of the many printings of this stamp used a water-soluble red ink mixed with the lime green ink to produce the brown color. I suppose that long exposure to water could leach out the red pigment in the color mix, leaving only the green.
Thanks again to everyone who helped solve this mystery!
~Glenn
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Posted 10/19/2018   03:01 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I tried soaking my brown red copy in warm water for nearly an hour to see if the color would change at all. It did not.


It could be light damage then, or consider collector's using bleach in the soaking water.
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Posted 10/20/2018   2:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add restoman to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Perhaps the green copy that I have is sun damaged, which might explain the overall color change on that stamp. The color changes on the 2 stamps shown by vayolene may have been caused by a different method, like exposure to moisture. The link provided by pnjstamps says that moisture is the culprit. I know that some red pigments used in inks are very susceptible to fading from sunlight. I would not be surprised if a red ink was both water-soluble, and fugitive in sunlight.

Of course bleach or some solvent could have caused the color changes too.
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