Canada / Sweden 2010 Marine Life Booklet Varieties

Glad I could be of assistance puzzler. I'll check with the Post Office this week to see if they have any more.
Dianne

4 variations for sale:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...t_500wt_1047

Moonbird, Do both of your booklets with Cylinder 1 on them, 014413 and 014543, from Kingston, NS, have the 2 extra small dots in the waves spiral above the mother otter on the stamp in position 2?

I have only one cylinder 1 left - the one on ebay right now - and it has no extra spots.

The 4 booklets are selling - at my requested start price of $17 - 3.5 days to go on a 5 day listing- 35 have looked at the lot and 7 watching. This could be interesting.

I for one am watching. I watch most Marine Life auctions. I want to bid but have reached my limit, money that is, not booklets nor stamps.

Puzzler, are any other cylinder 1 booklets known without the dots? I thought they all had them (or traces of). I know some are not shown on the list, but I thought they had not been verified yet.

There are some out there that have one dot, and some that have No dots, although I haven't seen a 600 ppi scan of these so can't verify.

The upper dot does move around a bit at times, so that it can be free of any large bubbles and then sometimes right next to a bubble, forming a kind of boil on the bubble.

If Moonbird could scan his booklet at 600 dpi/ppi and then email it to me I would be glad to see it and keep it in my building archives of 600 and larger dpi scans of booklets.

I think I made a mistake at the beginning in not buying non-serial-numbered booklets or even booklets with no numbers at all. I claim lack of funds and distractions by other stamps.

In the list on page 1 the missing (blank) entries in the 2-Dots column mean I haven't asked the owners, and the tilde character '~' means that there this booklets has reported no dots being there.

This is from booklet 014543 with cylinder #1 from Moonbird (also at this time on ebay as group of four booklets).

The stamp in position 2, that is row 1, column 2, does indeed have 2 extra small dark blue dots in the waves.

The green arrows point to the four blue bubbles and the red arrows point to the extra two dots. Note that the upper dot is below and touching the right most bubble. This happens sometimes. The upper dot migrates around.

Thanks puzzler - anyway, as said before the ones I have (or had) all had the dots.

A further note about these dots. It is sometimes hard to state exactly where they are because the otter itself migrates around the stamps and the waves and bubbles migrate around also seemingly.

This is because there are at least 5 and maybe more different arrangements of the underlying dots that make up the picture. Plus the coloured waves were printed first and then the animals were printed on top of those second.

Nothing out of the ordinary for multiple printing technique type of stamps but interesting and fun to collect different varieties I think.

Here are two scans (one a negative) of the backs of booklet serial #013921 which has a cylinder #1 also (with the two extra dots. The scans are of column 3 on the booklet.

There are offsets (transfers of ink from booklets piled together) on the backs. Scans darkened (four times) in exposure with photo editing software in order to show the offset printings on the backs.

This booklet has double offsets, one lighter than the other. To see these by the naked eye you really need to get out your magnifying lens and have a good light.



Negative scan shows the upper and lower selvage margins also.

Also from the same booklet with serial #013921, along with the regular Cylinder #1 2-dots in position 2, is this one-of error. An ink drop or blob or smudge? on the stamp in Row 2, column 3, porpoises.







So this booklet has back offset ink transfers plus a nice ink smudge on the front, haven't see that before now anywhere. This was acquired in Halifax/Dartmouth, NS.

Now listed on ebay under puzzler47 (that's me). Please see under ebay links forum on here for link to auctions. Three hours in and there are already bids on this one plus another one. Amazing. I must be doing something right.

I will post a 1200 dpi scan (600 dpi ones shown now) later. It takes so long to load those scans on my old old (2 years) computer.

A 1200 dpi or ppi scan of the ink drop / smudge error. I like it. Would make a good poster. This is the way it came, fresh from it's wrapper at the Post Office.

Here is another interesting variety on this one: note the large white dot above D