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re: What am I missing?
What do you need help with? The listing is not "violet yellow" , it is violet ON yellow {paper}.
SG names it "purple", Scott "violet". Colour names are not so standardized that you should expect a difference.
These stamps are surface printed and the colours are fugitive if soaked in water. Trying to assign shades to used {soaked} stamps of this issue is a mug's game.
Roy
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Normally the printers date and colour used is on the selvage however there is always the wealth of resources out there over the years I have been doing my own Machin catalogue which has now grown to 63 pages most of the entries now have the correct colour description straight off the selvage along with printer date and plate number and ya know what I've saved a bundle on pre printed catalogues which all give a different colour.
Did you ever read anything by Bernard Levin? He could spin out the most amazing sentences over hundreds of words and they were still very readable and entertaining.
It appears purple has a greater cachet than violet, as Scott #115 (violet) is valued at 3.50 usd (used), whereas Stanley Gibbons #202 (purple) is estimated at a more substantial 5 pounds. Stanley Gibbons stamps seem to be more valuable. Fortunately, I have far more Stanley Gibbons stamps than Scott.
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re: What am I missing?
"....Stanley Gibbons stamps seem to be more valuable....."
That's why I always buy using Scott listings and tabulate them in my inventory by Gibbons or Michel.
Sheer profit just by closing one catalog and opening another. Around the world on the QE II, here I come.
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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
"... Fortunately, I have far more Stanley Gibbons stamps than Scott ..."
Brings to mind an early line of Ian Fleming, wherein he explains that the protagonist records his income in Old Francs and his expenses in (post-devaluation) New Francs.
Inspired by a common feature of civil service pension plans, I value all of my goodies at the average of their best-three eBay results.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
Q/ So nobody thought that the stamp on the left suffered sulfurization?
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"I collect stamps today precisely the way I collected stamps when I was ten years old."
With a small set of appropiate chemicals (hydrogen peroxide, gas, alcohol, permanganate...) you can transform your standard color stamp into any shade you want!!