Not catalogued embossing paper at nº 927s

EMBOSSING PAPER FOR 1940 50cts.

 

 

          I have recently received a pair of Edifil nº 927 imperforated 50cts. with General Franco motive. This set is known to have a lot of podsible varieties and of course not all are described in specialized catalogues. It is formed by 17 different colour stamps all showing General Franco face, perforation size 91/2 and 101/2 and White paper.

 

 

 

           As we have said before, if you like to collect varieties, this is your set of stamps. Fifteen of the seventeen stamps are known to exist imperforated. It is possible to get printing errors, different perforation sizes, proofs or changed colours. But we are going to foucs on ppaper varieties. Appart from the usual white paper, the specialized catalogues describe other three types of paper:

 

 

 

1.- Thin yellow paper called "delmeina".

 

2.- Stucco paper.

 

3.- Carton paper.

 

 

          

          Now we can add another type of paper as you can see in the pair of stamps whose image is under this lines. It is a blue carton paper with pores called embossing paper ("gufraux" in French and "gofrado" in Spanish).

 

 

 

 

 

 

         I'd like to thank everyone who read this blog and I hope this contribution to be helpful to those who collect Spanish stamps. Every comment from you will be welcomed.



ERROR AT Nº 3100 "LA CARTUJA"

PERFORATION ERROR AT EDIFIL 3100, LA CARTUJA 1991

 

We have recently received at our studio a stamp showing an impressive perforation error that we are going to show you in this new blog contribution.

We are going to show you a copy of stamp Edifil number 3100, which was issued in 1991 because of the Universal Exposition which was going to take place in 1992 in the city of Sevilla. It shows the Monastery of Santa María De Las Cuevas “La Cartuja”. The perforation size of this stamp is 13¾ and 14. There were 3.900.000 copies issued of this complete set of four stamps. As we can see in a correct perforated copy, the year and the name of the monument are located at the bottom of the stamp, one to the left and the other to the right. 

 

We have now discovered a copy that wasn’t perforated correctly, as well as the rest of the copies from whole leave we suppose, so there would be more copies out there. The perforation was moved down so the year and the name of the monument disappeared.  On the other hand, the year and the name of the monument from upside stamp appeared at the top part of the copy. Here you can see the variety explained:

 

This variety has not been catalogued in any Spanish catalogue and as we are concerned, no one has referred to it. Thank you very much for reading this new contribution to our blog and any comment will be absolutely welcomed.