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$1.05 White-tailed Deer - experimental or new printing? Updated Dec 11/06
The stamp was first issued in December 2000. It has taken five years for this new printing to come to light. The variety exists on the booklet pane version of the stamp design. Only ten (10) booklets of six stamps each were purchased in November 2005 in a post office near Ottawa. This results in only 60 individual stamps reported to date.
There are two essential differences:
The thickness of the new booklet feels like it is a bit thicker. Is this due to an extra layer of paper found between the stamps and cover? When held up to a bright light bulb, the paper manufacturer's initials (JAC) and logo can be seen as a 'watermark'. (The location of the 'watermark' varies and can appear in different locations on different booklets). This 'watermark' was not seen on the initial printing of these booklets.
The lithography used on the new printing results in colour that appears 'solid'. As a result, the new printing appears to have darker colours.
We would be most interested in reports of actual used stamps of the new printing. One report we have heard is that during 1999 and 2000 Ashton-Potter was producing 'experimental' printings to test the self-adhesive gum. It is not know for sure if this happened, and if it did, which stamp issue(s) were used for testing. This particular new find falls into this period (albeit a bit late) and includes the 'extra watermarked-type' centre paper. Thoughts? Contact Robin Harris.
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A new ... and unique ...
printing
of the $1.05 White-tailed Deer stamp has just been reported (Nov 2005).
The lithography used on the original printings produces small dots of ink
in a honey-comb pattern that are
easily visible under 10 power magnification.