General Philatelic/Identify This? : APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ?
Author Postings lemaven 18 Apr 2020 03:09:07pmAnother unusual one.
A ">" mark under the C of "Cent". Login to Like this post lemaven 19 Apr 2020 10:03:45amre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? Doh! Saar lulled me to sleep. Here's the stamp in question:
All my other copies of this stamp do not have the mark under the "C".
Is this also a known variation?
Sorry & Thanks, Dave.
Login to Like this postBenque 19 Apr 2020 10:22:59amre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? Hi Dave,
I have 1 copy of this stamp, which has neither the ">" you mention, OR the dot to the left of the 2.
Login to Like this postGreaden 19 Apr 2020 12:45:41pmre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? Both Maury and Michel list numerous plate flaws for this stamp, but I do not recognize this specific flaw in any of the descriptions.
Login to Like this postmusicman APS #213005 19 Apr 2020 04:15:23pmre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? To me, the chevron does not seem to be a plate flaw - it looks intentional.
Login to Like this postAGKING 20 Apr 2020 08:55:04amre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? Looked through my 4 copies of this stamp. No marks to be seen... interesting
Login to Like this postmusicman APS #213005 20 Apr 2020 07:42:40pmre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? I have looked at a dozen or more image of Saar 107....
...none have the chevron.
Very curious indeed.
Login to Like this postgerom 20 Apr 2020 08:43:58pmre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? Hi Dave,
I think it is C with "cedille" Michel#100I
 
1 Member likes this post. Login to Like. lerivage 21 Apr 2020 09:39:25amApprovals re: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? My copy does not have the sign either. Michel
Login to Like this postcdj1122 Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy.. 21 Apr 2020 12:52:23pmre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? If the printing plate was assembled with separate
printing slugs to create the letters and values,
then it could be an easy error to use a "C" with a
cedilla on one stamp per sheet.
And possibly later corrected adding to scarecity.
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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. .... " Benque 21 Apr 2020 01:07:05pmre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? What is the dot over the word "C???"...Cent?) to the left of the 25. Is this one of the many plate flaws?
Login to Like this postlemaven 21 Apr 2020 01:08:26pmre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? Thanks for the info. I have a handful of that stamp but the one I posted was the only one I've noticed with that mark.
From gerom's scan it looks like there may be other artifacts worth looking for in that value (and perhaps others). I'll get my magnifying glass out!
Dave.
Login to Like this postCharlie2009 25 Apr 2020 02:51:23pmre: APOLOGIES: SCAN NOW ADDED ...Saar # 107 "Secret Mark" ? As stamps go this is a mess but it shows the same "Error" or mark. I would not have known I had this, but thanks to Hockey nut I decided to actually do some stamp collecting and so began to put things into some order at first, when I remembered this post and had a look.
 
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