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Perhaps you are missing a bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide?
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10:44:19am
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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Embrace the difference. Use your own labels for these two stamps and let the next guy struggle with the labels.
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Hi Guys,
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.
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Phew - I almost didn't make it to the end of that post! I think one full stop might be taking Aberdonian thriftiness a step too far. 
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Hi Guthrum,
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.
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"Bernard Levin ... could spin out the most amazing sentences over hundreds of words and they were still very readable and entertaining..."
Much like SoR's very own "lemaven" I daresay...
Signed, "An Anonymous Admirer"
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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.
Eric
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"....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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"... 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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SG are correct however there are shades of Purple on yellow this is when ya bring out yer SG colour swatches.
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OH NO.....BOOOOM !!
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Guthrum made me look up the term Aberdonian.
I should have known its meaning, but I had to look it up.
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AAHH.
An Aberdonian is a Yorkshireman with the generosity streak removed.
I love phrases like this as you can swap or insert any names you like.
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Scott say this is Violet Yellow or Violet Orange, Stanley Gibbons says Purple on Yellow....HELP
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re: What am I missing?
Perhaps you are missing a bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide?
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29 Jan 2017
10:44:19am
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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Embrace the difference. Use your own labels for these two stamps and let the next guy struggle with the labels.
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Hi Guys,
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.
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Phew - I almost didn't make it to the end of that post! I think one full stop might be taking Aberdonian thriftiness a step too far.
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Hi Guthrum,
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.
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"Bernard Levin ... could spin out the most amazing sentences over hundreds of words and they were still very readable and entertaining..."
Much like SoR's very own "lemaven" I daresay...
Signed, "An Anonymous Admirer"
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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.
Eric
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31 Jan 2017
11:08:37pm
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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"... 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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SG are correct however there are shades of Purple on yellow this is when ya bring out yer SG colour swatches.
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Guthrum made me look up the term Aberdonian.
I should have known its meaning, but I had to look it up.
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