2 Cent Green Admirals Coils

Are these 5 examples fake? Sheet stamps cut/trimmed to be Coils?

1

2

3

4

5


Trodent

Canada Scott/Unitrade 128a (1, 3, 4, 5)
Canada Scott/Unitrade 128 (2)

Trodent
Great 128a stamps.
Keep looking for Scott 128a stamps with a version that has not been recognized in Unitrade yet...It is hairlines present on Scott 128a as shown below..

Robert

Number 2 seems to be a paste-up coil pair. At least, that is what I would call it in US stamp lingo.

wkusau, looks much more like a line pair to me ( with the line in the incorrect place )

Peter

wkusau

I used my software program to put light coming from the top left portion of the stamp.....The way the light settled to me means the RED arrows is higher than the YELLOW arrow....paste-up.???

Robert

May be if you show the back it will help confirm paste-up?

Hi Robert,
As we have previously discussed, the software is only detecting the color of the pixels and has nothing to do with any z axis (height) distancing.
Don

Trodent...Gilles le timbre has good point...Can you post a picture of the back...??

Robert

It is quite clear that #2 is a "coil pair with paste-up at left".

The mis-use of the software to create the false 3-D image should be deleted. Note the light from the top left creates the unprinted letters of CANADA to cast shadows to the lower right as if they were raised. And other portions of the image trick the software to create additional false interpretations of what is actually high or low. File the image under "fiction".

I too am tired of seeing these manipulated images masquerading as research.

In statistics there is an old saying "torture the data enough and it will confess to anything". The original question was kindly answered already.

I'll slip in scans of my 128 paste-up single on card used in 1927...
Entire card:


Close-up scan of the stamp:


Photo with raking light from right, which shows the paste-up shadow of the two layers at the extreme left edge, the extra layer of paper under the left third of the stamps causing a vertical ripple, and a series of vertical indentations across the forehead from the dispensing rollers inside a vending machine:


And a paste-up tangent on a one-cent coil ...
Unitrade 131iv, Experimental Toronto coil pair with paste-up at bottom, front and reverse, hinged at top.

John Decker

Your top stamp has a longer eyelash than the bottom stamp.

It is not a listed variety.

Perhaps more examples exist for consideration as being a constant variety.

I was just curious if your 128 green admiral 2 cent had a green dot in the bottom left hand corner. see the examples below

This is a strip of 3, could there be a strip of 4,5,6,7,8?


is it possible this pair came from 128a. no straight edge at bottom


yes this is a paste up. Guess better to have the paste between the 2 stamps.


as for asking if they are fakes see
http://www.bnaps.org/ore/VanSomeren...ps-Fakes.htm.
it shows a green dot in the bottom left hand corner.

Just curious if they are?