Foro de Filatelia Argentina

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 ...

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????

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

Otin escribió: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

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

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 ...