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It looks like the 1889 issue Scott #44 but the colour does not look right. It should be violet and green.
There is a 'white' area over the value and there seems to horizontal lines across the rest of the stamp. Unusual. Not something I've seen before.
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Having another look I can see a ghost image of the stamp on the surrounding borders and margin. I looks as if the 'white' area is where the the shield of the ghost image would be.
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A printing error, I think. the base pattern has shifted (the sheet of paper was not aligned properly at one of the printing runs)
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The 50K stamp is very unusual
Basically this value was printed in 2 color passes so this does not account for any shift within the background section. A transparent control (varnish lines) was applied in the shape of the criss-cross pattern
As for the color, Scott is lacking as the frame color comes in violet, lilac, dark lilac and red or brown lilac plus others
Also there were multiple printings of this series.
There are many varieties of the 50K but none mention this situation ( I have a 250 page specialized book on just this series)
The stamp needs to be checked for perfs, type of paper and presence (or not) of a watermark - some of the issues can be very expensive
A red lilac dark green center shift from an auction
Some of the varieties
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Can someone help me identify this Russian Stamp? Does it have any value?
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re: Can someone help me identify this Russian Stamp?
It looks like the 1889 issue Scott #44 but the colour does not look right. It should be violet and green.
There is a 'white' area over the value and there seems to horizontal lines across the rest of the stamp. Unusual. Not something I've seen before.
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re: Can someone help me identify this Russian Stamp?
Having another look I can see a ghost image of the stamp on the surrounding borders and margin. I looks as if the 'white' area is where the the shield of the ghost image would be.
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re: Can someone help me identify this Russian Stamp?
A printing error, I think. the base pattern has shifted (the sheet of paper was not aligned properly at one of the printing runs)
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re: Can someone help me identify this Russian Stamp?
The 50K stamp is very unusual
Basically this value was printed in 2 color passes so this does not account for any shift within the background section. A transparent control (varnish lines) was applied in the shape of the criss-cross pattern
As for the color, Scott is lacking as the frame color comes in violet, lilac, dark lilac and red or brown lilac plus others
Also there were multiple printings of this series.
There are many varieties of the 50K but none mention this situation ( I have a 250 page specialized book on just this series)
The stamp needs to be checked for perfs, type of paper and presence (or not) of a watermark - some of the issues can be very expensive
A red lilac dark green center shift from an auction
Some of the varieties
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