Finland Helsinki And Vasa Issues

Scott 1999 shows design A19 as taller than A20, but Scott 2011 shows the reverse, A20 as taller than A19. One of them is wrong.

Finland experts: Please advise which is correct.

Thanks in advance.

Donald

We got a lot of experts here ,after they find their information on the internet they will give you a EXPERT opinion .

To help those experts ,since I am only a worldwide collector with no EXPERTISE ,here is a picture to help them out .

The Vaasa design stamps are a little larger, as floortrader's pic shows. They also vary more in size.

The perf gauge is a key difference, with the Vasa issue being perf 11-1/2. The Vasa issue also has white margins around the designs. See floortrader's examples.

Do not compare sizes with Scott pictures. For one, the conversion to color was done over a period of a few years and done at different times for these images shown side-by-side in Scott. Further, do not take overprints or even basic stamp images to be always correct as shown in Scott. They are more accurate than before, but a fair number of forgeries or reprints are still shown.

Thanks, all. I have a few of the Helsinki issues, but none of the Vasa issues. I could tell the difference by perfs, colors, white margins, etc, but wanted to correct my Scott catalogs to reflect the correct relative sizes.

Again, thanks.