SC 695i The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee 8c - Glowing Moon In A Different Position, Shape And Location.

The normal glowing moon constant variety is on position 41 and composed as many small dots.



My position is row 2 column 5 (or 10 depending how the panes were printed) and composed of a single larger dot.

I just love it when a variety appears in a plate block. That was how I used to buy stamps from Canada Post before I became interested in Canadian varieties. Here is an image of my "glowing moon copy. (Commercial message: I have three copies listed on Hipstamp.com - search for 65067247.)


As an aside, I have to create a better setup for photographing tagging. My hands are now too shaky and the results by far lack the crispness of your images..

As for your second example, the tagging dot, this appears on all four copies I have - in upper right plate blocks. Sorry I can't post a picture. It's a long time since I used my cameras and they have dead batteries now.

Unitrade says the panes have 50 stamps. Also it says that the glowing moon variety is in Position 41. As this is the lower left stamp in a lower left plate/corner block There must be 10 stamps per row. This would put the tagging dot variety in Position 20.

It also seems to me that generally that, if the stamp design is vertical, the wider side defines the rows and the narrow side defines the columns, with opposite holding for horizontal designs.

The stamps were printed in sheets of 200, panes of 50. Is the tagging applied to the entire sheet or to the individual panes once the sheet is cut. If the former, that could explain why I have a 695 in Position 41 which does not exhibit the glowing moon variety.

Thanks itma for the pic which shows the layout of the pane.