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Ralph
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Hi Ralph,
A variety is typically considered a constant across a significant part of the production run. Rust or scratch on a printing plate often results in a stamp being listed as a variety. Non-constant things like a speck of dust or other foreign material which prohibits proper inking is not a variety but instead is considered a ‘freak’ or ‘oddity’ and do not get picked up by catalogs as a variety.
But I agree with the article in the sense that fly-speccing is getting more and more ‘detailed’ as technology has increased. Most hobbyists now have high resolution scanners and some are calling out even the tiniest of differences in printings. I have seen some people almost down to pixel levels.
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When you drill down to that level, you find that every single stamp is unique as none will be a 100% exact duplicate of another. It's still fun to do sometimes.
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11:36:07am
I like to consider what can be seen with the naked eye
as a variety, although magnification can be used to
discover the anomaly. Using IR or UV lights can yield
a Variety, but again, only as long as it is just the light.
Others may differ, but there are enough stamps and
differences visible to the normal vision to keep me busy.
I do use the electron Microscope to examine stamps,
and to make measurements, but then if I cannot see
what ever caught my eye expanded, it is at best an oddity.
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SOR member Lee Cohen never spent much time looking at “little specks of ink” on his stamps until he came across an interesting variation of Iran stamp Scott #86 in a retired APS circuit book. Take a look and read more about it here: Flyspecking or a Variety?
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re: New Article - Flyspecking or a Variety?
Hi Ralph,
A variety is typically considered a constant across a significant part of the production run. Rust or scratch on a printing plate often results in a stamp being listed as a variety. Non-constant things like a speck of dust or other foreign material which prohibits proper inking is not a variety but instead is considered a ‘freak’ or ‘oddity’ and do not get picked up by catalogs as a variety.
But I agree with the article in the sense that fly-speccing is getting more and more ‘detailed’ as technology has increased. Most hobbyists now have high resolution scanners and some are calling out even the tiniest of differences in printings. I have seen some people almost down to pixel levels.
Don
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10:40:35am
re: New Article - Flyspecking or a Variety?
When you drill down to that level, you find that every single stamp is unique as none will be a 100% exact duplicate of another. It's still fun to do sometimes.
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13 Dec 2018
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re: New Article - Flyspecking or a Variety?
I like to consider what can be seen with the naked eye
as a variety, although magnification can be used to
discover the anomaly. Using IR or UV lights can yield
a Variety, but again, only as long as it is just the light.
Others may differ, but there are enough stamps and
differences visible to the normal vision to keep me busy.
I do use the electron Microscope to examine stamps,
and to make measurements, but then if I cannot see
what ever caught my eye expanded, it is at best an oddity.
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