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Susanne
Recorded Joined: 31 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 142 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 November 2012 at 13:27 | |
I'm going to get organized (she typed with a straight face) and figure out what spares I have so I can start swapping!
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Colin
Unhinged Joined: 29 March 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2411 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 08 November 2012 at 23:18 | |
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Susanne
Recorded Joined: 31 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 142 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 November 2012 at 01:28 | |
I missed that! So sorry about your eye Keith! The only thing that's important is your recovery. Take it easy, the stamps will still be here when you're ready.
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Steve
Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3481 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 15 November 2012 at 12:03 | |
A new variety of the £6175 stamps seems to have appeared. Same size as the others, but these have a double border. There is a background shading behind the design and a further white border. The net result is a smaller stamp image. This is a new colour for the £70, but it also exists in the regular green on cream variety. I've not seen any other of the values in this format. Has anybody else seen them? |
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Joolz
Special Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 674 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 November 2012 at 07:28 | |
I've just done a nice trade of some of Colin's bits and bobs with Susanne and she has sent me an interesting variant of the 2p St Hilary that I don't think has been previously reported.
The variant is the stamp on the right of the image below and I think the stamp on the left is the common.
The stamp on the left, which I pulled from one of Colin's Little Bags of Sticky Bits, is the only 2p St Hilary I had and, as I don't have a sheet , I couldn't compare it against anything. So, I had simply assumed it was the common, as I don't think it is any of the variants currently listed on askmeaboutstamps. However, in light of the new variant, it could presumably be another different variant rather than a common.
Anyways, the variant that Susanne very kindly sent me has the blue triangle (at least I think it is a blue triangle) being held by St H in her left hand replaced by a trinagular blank.
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Steve
Unhinged Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3481 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 November 2012 at 07:54 | |
I have spotted that and other varieties. Actually there are so many on the sheet that spotting the common or basic stamp is the big task. All will be revealed when AskMe gets its revisions
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Susanne
Recorded Joined: 31 March 2010 Status: Offline Points: 142 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 November 2012 at 11:47 | |
Like the new color on the 70!
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Keith
Mint Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: Derbyshire, UK Status: Offline Points: 1111 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 November 2012 at 04:49 | |
I have a sheet of the 1p and 2p. As I recall, every stamp on the 2p sheet is a "variant" so it is, as Steve says, difficult to spot the basic stamp - or maybe even to decide what the basic stamp is!! Maybe on revision I'll can scan it in big and make it clickable to expand further and you can all play at "spot the variant"! At least there are only 18 stamps on the 2p sheet rather than the 38 on the 1p Keith |
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Hiromi
Registered Joined: 11 May 2011 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 53 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 28 November 2012 at 21:21 | |
If that is the case then are there any variations in print quality or content between the sheets? ie are they all from the same print run or are there a few sheets of smaller runs as the testing progressed?
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Colin
Unhinged Joined: 29 March 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2411 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 29 November 2012 at 06:12 | |
I didn't make them with the intention of selling them at all, and yes, many of the variants were produced as a way of staying occupied at the printers while stampsheets were being set up or run (sit looking idle at our printers for too long and you were instantly put on tea-making duty...). It was only when visitors to the studio thought they were fun that we thought we should page them up properly and sell a few sheets.
There was only one, small, print run of the 2p and the 1p.
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