The Netherlands East Indies 1 guilder value of the 1913-1931 series is a good example:

and details of various printings (including some with overprints)


1921 60c overprint:

airmail 75c overprint:


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You must be kiddingOttawaMike wrote:Could be plate wear. If so, those types of things seldom get listed in catalogues, you would have to refer to specialized literature.
RUDERein wrote:
You must be kidding
Haven't you seen the horizontal and vertical lines on one stamp and the diagonal lines on the other???
Different engravings no doubt about it!
Where nowadays will we find specialized literature? Wasn't that a thing from the 19th century? Or the early 20th maybe???
In what philatelic world do you live?
Rein wrote:
You must be kidding
Haven't you seen the horizontal and vertical lines on one stamp and the diagonal lines on the other???
Different engravings no doubt about it!
Where nowadays will we find specialized literature? Wasn't that a thing from the 19th century? Or the early 20th maybe???
In what philatelic world do you live?
You are awfully right! My serious mistake! Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.iomoon wrote:
Rein,
perhaps if you could include a description of what we are supposed to be looking at rather than just posting images with details of what type of overprint, we might better know what we are looking for.
ReinBut as to my remarks on literature I am afraid to be still right. There is hardly any literature on modern - that is 20th century and later - postage stamps that I can refer to.
This is actually an excellent and sometimes misunderstood point (no Rein, I am not referring to you here - this is just a general observation)yannis wrote: Rein
This is a great opportunity in a way!You could study them and come up with a paper!
Yannis
I'm just a student of modern stamp printing techniques and early recess-intaglio hadn't been my field yet.yannis wrote:
To my eye in looks like a repaired plate (i.e re-entry). This was very common approach to plate wear in those days. They would change a bit of the hatching or shading, remove frames and the like. I am sure that if you can get hold of a batch of these stamps from 1913 to 1920 you can observe both the wear as well as the repair! Just studying the perforation varieties for the 'Palm Issues', forget about plates would probably fill a few good chapters of a book!
Yannis
Rein wrote:The Manual proves that my assumption of these variations not being recorded before was wrong!
But on the other hand it shows that whatever great philatelists have once researched and published AND what wasn't picked up by the catalogue makers out of mainly commercial reasons - they didn't have the material and/or were too lazy to dig into the matter - gets lost!! Or forgotten for 70 years and accidentally discovered again....
See another thread of mine:
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11135
I know out of first hand that the editors of the Dutch Stamp Dealers Association issued Dutch and Colonies Stamp Catalogue don't really bother to read the monthly columns in the only Dutch nation-wide stamp magazine "Filatelie" and pick up for their Specialists Catalogue what is there on a silver tray!
But getting back to the Indies:
It was all there - the information about the 1 Guilder Dutch East Indies of the 1913 Queen and Palm tree series. Almost 70 years ago!
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