Hi, in putting some new acquisition into my Newfoundland album, I noticed that Scott does not list a #50, but skips from 49 to 51. Does anyone know why? Now, my Scott and Unitrade are getting old, so perhaps this has been changed in the recent catalogues. Thanks, Theron.
Not sure why Scott skipped the #50; that is still so for the 2012 edition and the 2011 Scott Classic catalogue.
There are four main entries for that design in Gibbons; three match the three main entries listed in Scott (49, 51, 52); the fourth main entry is from 1896 and is listed as #65 "deep blue" in Gibbons, which is variant #49b in the Scott Classic.
"Great tracking; why do they do that? (Scott, that is). It can't be "rarity" or number issued, is it?"
There have been quite a few changes to the Scott catalogue over the years.
One of the more common changes is a major number with a color, say "rose", later becomes a minor number, because a new color issue shade of the stamp, say "rose red" becomes more ubiquitous, and obtains the major number.
There was also a change in editors, and some of the colors-"henna" comes to mind- that was favored by a former editor, got changed to a different shade phrase by the "new" editor.
Fortunately, that usually didn't result in a new Scott number, but can be a bit confusing if relying on old album space descriptions.
