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Austria - special paper for recess printing !?

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In studying the 1973 Austrian definitives depicting landscapes - the so-called Schönes Österreicht - Beautiful Austria set, I stumbled across the catalogization of these stamps in the Austrian and German Specialized catalogues. Catalogues may tend to accept differences in UV-reaction to make separate listings, but if the difference in UV-reaction is not here OR of secundary importance???

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These stamps have been printed on the Goebel reel-fed rotary press for recess in combination with photogravure!

Installed in March 1973! And since then in use for several definitives series in recess+photogravure or 4-colour photogravure only [2002 euro values, - Austria Holiday Country / Ferienland].

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In the previous posting I showed the listing of Michel in 1980!

More recently in the 2009 Austria Specialized Michel, we will see it slightly different!

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Mixchel has found a type of paper (x) called "Rakelpapier" or doctor blade paper?!?!? it is supposed to give a somewhat rose reaction under UV!

The normal paper for these stamps is supposed to be a hibrite white fluorescent paper! And the 6s may even have a high yellow fluorescent paper....

And this is where even the specialist collectors get lost....

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In my opinion there are ONLY two types of paper in this sets - possibly with a few subdivisions:

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A very provoked relief surface at the back AND the front with grooves that have nothing to do with the fibers of the paper pulp!

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and a surface without any grooves or with hardly any!

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The grooves at the back or hardly any grooves at all - just a glimp of the wire structure visible!

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Grooves at the top, no grooves at the bottom.

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Looking at mint copies with sheet margins you get an extra picture of thess type of paper!

Either a VERY smooth and egal front or a smudgy surface!

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A surface that reminded me of the surface the used stamps had at the back!

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Judging the UV-reaction from what you can observe with used stamps is a bit risky!

Quite often the optical brightening agents of the enveloppes move into the stamp paper and then you cannot trust the UV-reaction anymore!

Mint stamps however, as long as you keep them in a well protected place, may use our purpose of studying the UV-reaction still!

The grooved stamps having a smudgy front show a moderate OBA reaction - apart from the 20s that showd hardly any reaction.

The mint stamps with the smoooth surfaces showd NO reaction at all.

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The 1s in used condition does show the smudgy front and a back in several degrees of what some may call "marmorizado":

3 stamps with a marmored surface of the back, the 4th stamps as flat as can be:

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All 4 in detail:

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There may be some coloured fibers in the smooth type of paper!

Blue fibers!

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Again the 12s:

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The 4s:

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The blue and yellow fibers are really there, the black one just crept in from electro-static...

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Studying definitives ALWAYS requires the study of the commemoratives in the same period as the printing techniques may be the same or the types of paper used!

Commemoratives - National Library stamps of 1966:

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You can the smudgy effects both at the front and at the back!

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