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Unitrade Bk74f Variety - Two More Found.

 
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Posted 01/11/2020   11:17 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wert to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
A lot of collectors know about the variety on Unitrade BK74f booklet.
There are a couple more oddities associated with this booklet.
Here are a couple more I found, and sent it to Unitrade to see if they are worth placing in the 2021 Unitrade Catalouge or not.

Robert

Below is the BK74f booklet appearing in Unitrade 2020 Catalouge.


B and C are in the Catalouge..A is a new find.


Below is what I call "Missing Hair"


Below is what I called "Candle Effect"


If anyone has more oddities, please post them.
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Posted 01/11/2020   12:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Gilles le timbre to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nice finds Robert. This will drag me into my booklet inventory one more time...
By the way, the Macdonald also has the missing e in postag (e)
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Posted 01/11/2020   12:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Good eye Gilles..I didn't even catch that..Thanks
Robert

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Posted 01/12/2020   3:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nice find, so I have to look for new space and to find this variety.
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Posted 01/12/2020   3:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
About MCDonald stamp. This must be an print error. On strait line is missing the ink, I bet that Unitrade will never say something about.
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Posted 01/12/2020   4:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
silviosi
If this is what you mean about a straight line..??
Very odd.
Robert

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Posted 01/12/2020   5:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
"The number of basic booklet formats is much less complicated than the previous issue due largely to the fact that the method of production was not changed mid-issue and there were no postal rate increases until the end of 1976. However, which this issue lacks in basic differences, it more than makes up for in varieties. The quality control on these booklets was very, very poor, resulting in a lot of minor plate, inking and tagging varieties, as well as numerous variations in the fluorescence level and texture of both the stamp paper and cover stock." (reproduction from Canadian Postal History article about this series).

About the strait line: In my opinion it is an strait line because follow the tagging line.

Hope be useful.

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Posted 01/12/2020   6:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Maybe wrong about tagging line. An UV photo will clarified.
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Posted 01/12/2020   6:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add BlackJag to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I see what Silviosi is referring to, but instead of a line, it appears to be a rectangular box in a lighter background tint than the surrounding area.

I've boxed the area with green vertical lines just a mm or two outside of the rectangle. The green arrows indicate the rectangle's actual vertical sides. Almost as if something was on the plate or paper while printing.



Here's a BK74a with the same missing red ink, but without the rectangular lighter background tint.

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Posted 01/12/2020   8:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I thing that this was the worst print of BABN in all theirs life. I will continue put those flaws and errors in my collection, despite the fact they are not really, just for fun.
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Posted 01/15/2020   09:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pepere_jack to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I also have a copy of this booklet. Mine do have a few differences:

Full picture:


The missing ink is not exactly the same... We can still see red ink on the right of the "1" and a little bit of the "e" of "postage". The "missing hair" seems to come along with the missing "e":


I do have the "Candle effect"... Pretty much the same, seems a little fainter:


And two new things:

1- perforations not aligned on top of the whole booklet. I wonder how it could have been produced:


2- Something like the "Candle effect" on the word "Canada" of the 6 cent stamp:


I don't remember where I got this booklet. Probably in with a pack I bought. I never saw any other of this kind. Can't even guess if the "Candle effect" on the 6 cent is constant or just a freak.
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Posted 01/15/2020   12:16 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Can't even guess if the "Candle effect" on the 6 cent is constant or just a freak.

pepere_jack..Would not be a constant..Probably over inked, ink pull.

Nice booklet..There are lot of poor printings of this booklet...Proof readers must have been on strike that day..haha

Robert

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