The 5c stamp issued for the Panamerican Congress of Housing has got recognition at last. Two types of paper = inglés and holandés can be found in the GJ'09! So far, nor the Kneitschel nor Klass had it! How to recognize them and is that all??? The parallel watermark with symmetrical paper wire - English paper papel inglés - direction of paper parallel to the long side of the stamp "M":
The orthogonal watermark with symmetrical paper wire - Dutch paper papel holandés - direction of paper parallel to the long side of the stamp "M":
The orthogonal watermark with symmetrical paper wire - Dutch paper papel holandés - direction of paper parallel to the short side of the stamp "m":
This last version has got the same line of AЯ as the one with parallel paper!
Re-posted as there is no way for me to comment the article in Revista 225 by J.R. Merlo on this subject.... The orthogonal watermark with symmetrical paper wire - direction of paper parallel to the short side of the stamp "m":
Measuring the horizontal distances between the 1st and the 3rd sun of this last version: 32mm, we may be quite sure that this type of paper belongs to the so-called: Austríaco or 1E2 ! "Otin 27 May 2010 01:06" Rein, Undoubtedly it is papel austríaco! A few weeks ago a member of my club told me a stamp unknown to be printed on such paper appeared. Upon your mail I called him to confirm what stamp it was and he confirmed it was the Housing stamp. This is a fascinating aspect of philately: it always surprises you with a new challenge. But what is strange for me is the contemporarity of this discovery, unless you knew of it existence from long ago. Do not be surprised if Kneitschel or Klass didn't mention these papers. It happens that JG finally accepted our 'preaching' of the importance of classifying different papers. I wrote my PyR I monography because I was tired of seeing collectors being cheated by dealers that sold them the common papers by the good ones, and to point out the existence of real rarities concerning papers. Saludos José José, Indeed it is a fascinating hobby with lots of surprises yet to come! Sometimes a discovery is just floating in the air! I did have that Housing stamp for some time now - 6 months??? Remember that I only started collecting Argentina in March 2009! :) |
