1954 20c and 40c José de San Martin

[Rein]

The catalogues do not give us any "plate flaws" nor systematical characteristics of these 2 stamps! However, I just happened to spot a rather remarkable characteristic that hardly could have been overlooked!

Out of some 280 40c stamps on Zárate paper - uncoated paper, orthogonal watermark, direction of paper vertical - 22 copies did have the same feature of the "4"!











Looks like a root block of 5x2 or two different root block of 5x1....

to be continued ...

[Rein]

The catalogues do not give us any "plate flaws" nor systematical characteristics of these 2 stamps! However, I just happened to spot a rather remarkable characteristic that hardly could have been overlooked!

Out of some 180 40c stamps on coated Wiggins Teape paper, orthogonal watermark, direction of paper vertical - 15 copies did have the same feature of the "4"!





The root block of 5x2 was just under my nose!

The thick "4" is number 3 in the first row!

to be continued ...

P.S.

the former owner of this block wrote "papel holandés"! What made him think so????

[Otin]

Rein,
Ot also appears in 7th and 9th row.
José

[Rein]

Rein,
It also appears in 7th and 9th row.
José

José,

OK, but as we can learn from Guillermo's study, it is important to know of all occurences in the 2 sheets of 10x10!

Do you have access to complete sheets?

saludos, Rein

[leonardoleidi]

Now in his blogspot, you can see it better!!!!

[Rein]

The 40c got also printed on a sheet-fed typography press!!

The perforation is different - like that of the offset-litho printed stamps!

And the direction of paper is the first characteristic to be observed! A horizontal direction of paper!

What I had not seen before was the use of TWO different type of paper!

The asymmetrical Zárate paper and the symmetrical one!

Asymmetrical:




Symmetrical:




to be continued ...