As the frame and vignette are printed separately there is always going to be the likelihood of slight shifts between the two. Some collectors collect extreme examples of these.
Thanks. That's helpful. I suppose there are patterns to be found by collectors who amass many examples and carefully measure the shifts. At the moment it's more of a curiosity for me.
Anyone else collect the New Zealand Second Pictorials? They are equally beautiful and frustrating. I am looking for help with a puzzling feature of the 4 pence denomination showing Mitre Peak. The literature discusses a slew of variations of this stamp, including re-entries, but doesn't (as far as my obsessive searching on web or in print has found) highlight a feature of the stamp that I find shows lots of variety. Pictured here are two specimens of the 1936 issue (Scott 209 and Stanley Gibbons 583, perforations 14x13 1/2, multi-star NZ watermark):
Notice the boat with the person in the foreground, lower left of the central image on each stamp. In the stamp on the left, the boat is some distance away from the circular frame; in the one on the right, the boat intrudes into the frame. This kind of variation occurs across the various issues of the 4 pence, with different degrees of intrusion and distance away. I have not yet been able to figure out a pattern to it. Should there be a pattern or is this just a random function of the printing process? The picture doesn't clearly show that this stamp has two colors - typically black for the center and some variety of brown for the outer frame.
re: New Zealand Second Pictorial Mitre Peak
As the frame and vignette are printed separately there is always going to be the likelihood of slight shifts between the two. Some collectors collect extreme examples of these.
re: New Zealand Second Pictorial Mitre Peak
Thanks. That's helpful. I suppose there are patterns to be found by collectors who amass many examples and carefully measure the shifts. At the moment it's more of a curiosity for me.