Hi, I got these two lovely old (1883-1897) Switserland postage due stamps with demonination 20 and 50. A bit of searching led me to believe these are respectively dark olive type II inverted, and light olive type II inverted. Can anyone confirm this, and ideally also suggest a rough value?
Hi Bloemzee, and welcome to this forum. Een lange tijd geleden was ik uw buurman - verliet Rijsenburg in 1968! Your 'dark' stamp looks like it is way overinked in my opinion. It is a bit hard to tell since they are pictured seperately Check ebay and Delcampe for value - I have no idea
Dank voor de welkom! My inversion theory stems from https://worldstampsproject.org/swit...-varieties/. There it is suggested to look whether the line below the wheel in the lower left corner is broken. That seems to be the case for both.
@Littleriverphil two features seem to indicate inverted ( kopfstehend ) background. First is the small round orb in the bottom left corner. If it is open between 1 and 2 o'clock it is inverted. The second clue is a bit harder, but look at the top of the '5' of 50. The inner circle just to the left has a small opening in it. When it is on that side of the stamp it is inverted.
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Posted 02/08/2021 2:04 pm
