Belgium Leopold Medaillon Plate Error+identification ?

Hi there fellow collectors,

I started collecting Belgium some time go and came across this 20 cents Leopold from the 19th century.


I don't have a plate error catalog yet for Belgium :)
I do have the OCB but this plate error is not mentioned.

My question : Is this a plate error
and what is this stamps OCB number ?

All help is welcome !

cheers, Eric

Where is the plate error?

Hi it's the lips :)

Here's an example of a "normal" stamp

Hi Eric,
I would be hesitant to declare a plate error.
More, perhaps just an inking irregularity.

Why is it a plate error and not a piece of dirt on the paper during printing ? To be a plate flaw you need other copies of the same defect .

Maybe I should find out by posting a picture on a stamp forum and asking right ?

Do you know any stamp forum ?

You posted on a stamp forum, this one! And you got a great and true answer!


Peter

Okay I'll look go somewhere else.

Are you children or what?

The answer given, that it's not a plate error, but an artifact of the inking on the plate, either a bit of foreign matter on the plate when inked or a bit on the paper when printed is very much likely to be correct. To be a plate error it has to show up over and over again in the same position on the plate. Yours is distinctive enough to have been recognized as such if it were a plate error and would be listed in the major catalogs such as COG.