Canada's Efos And Weird Mistakes.

These stamps (1362iii) are the ultimate sleeper. The cat value is high, so high but I've seen some sell for like $75. Maybe no one knew what it was.

Keep looking and see how fast your hand can reach for the wallet.

I will spill the beans. That picture is of my stamps and I paid $32 US for them in an open auction. Anyone could have taken them but knowledge is power. You and I know they list for $2250 CDN. Not out of reach if you have 'smarter arms' and a dozen catalogues.

I love it. That must have given you shivers. I think it still does. I'm laughing out loud and my wife is asking why.

Here is a block of 20 from the pane that 1362iii originated and also 1362c (vertical or horizontal imperforate pairs). Total Unitrade Cat price of $10,500 for the block of 20. (2x 1362iii @ $2,250/each and 8x 1362c @ $750/each)

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Cool. Must get my hands on more.

Here is a mis-perforation error on Unitrade 1815, block of 4. Quite dramatic.

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Here is a corner fold-over on Unitrade 587 that results in a bizarre perfs at UR blank corner block of 15 (5x3) and a single mis-perforated.

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I totally love all these
Here's another for you. 1713a fold-over after perforations were done but before guillotine.

And a booklet with a problem. Makes for interesting stamps.
Booklet 153A
I'd love to find an envelope with one of those stamps on it. Just to show how ordinary people would look at these and complain about poor quality and still use it for their mail.

The above booklet (in the previous post) was cut after it was folded. You can find very interesting stamp sizes with this when one end of the cutter goes loose.

The following images in this post shows what happens when one end of the cutter goes loose but the booklet is cut before it is folded. The stamp sizes are not as dramatic.

Both are hinting at the techniques used in cutting apart these booklets.

I'm sure this does not matter to most collectors but to some researchers, this can be valuable.

interesting!

I'm curious about these stamps.
Canada #907 with repaired paper. These are sometimes called double paper.
Are they repaired at the printer or at the paper factory where they are also gummed before being sent to the printers?



I tried to take a photo with a strong light behind for the next two.


It seems like some type of green paper was used to glue them together.
Any comments?

What about mis-registrations.
Sometimes a mis-registration of less than 1mm is good enough for a listing in a catalogue (Canada Unitrade with Scott numbers + extension). For example Canada #597 25 cent 1972 polar bears.
The stamp on the left exhibits a mis-registration of less than 1mm and bingo, it gets its own listing as #597aiii



But another, much more pronounced mis-registration gets no recognition even though it displays a more than 6mm mis-registration. The stamp on the left is #723C in the Unitrade catalogue

Is this because the Landscape Definitives have a bigger following?



There are many more examples but maybe is it that the printing tolerances somehow became more relaxed and too many mis-registrations started to appear? Not enough space to list them all?

Canada Scott Unitrade #1165 has two very interesting listings as #1165d and #1165iv
This is often referred to as double print but is it really as described.
The listing quotes: "double impression of all litho colors except black." I wonder if anyone had a really close look at this.



A close-up look is helpful. The second close-up is the normal stamp.




Does this look like all litho colors except black are doubled.
Clearly, to me, and I'm not an expert, there are no doubled colors. Rather I see a mis-registration plain and simple.
This is supposed to be a $300.00 item. Is it?