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The Poland 1955 Cracow festvial stamps

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This set of stamps had been described badly from the very beginning as far as paper goes!

Mentioned in the Handbook "Polskie Znaki Pocztowe" of 1960:

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As far as paper goes it just says that it has either cream, rough surfaced, thick paper or white, smooth, thick paper!

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In the more recent Handbook by Kiełbasa-Schoeni/Fołta:

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As to paper it mentions a type of paper with a clear sieve structure when you hold it against a light source OR just no structure to be seen at all.


Both handbooks omitted the fact that at least 2 values had been printed of paper containing woodchips. And apart from this type of paper another 3 types of wood-free paper had been used.

1st type of paper:

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I found just the 20gr and 40 gr so far.

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This 1st type of paper has a symmetrical sieve structure.


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Second (and third) type of paper

Just as with the 1st type of paper the symmetrical sieve structure is well visible when holding the stamps against a strong light source.

But the 2nd type has irregular grooves at the front with the rhombs at the back while the 3rd type has it the other way around - rhombs at the front and grooves at the back.

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At the top the grooves at the front [type 2]e, at the bottom the grooves at the back [type 3].

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At the top the rhombs at the back [type 2]e, at the bottom the rhombs at the front [type 3].

The 2nd type of paper exist for all 3 values: 20gr, 40gr, 60gr and so does the 3rd type of paper: 20gr, 40gr, 60gr
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The 4th type of paper:

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No clearly visbile sieve structure when hold against the strong light source! Probably this is what was meant by Kiełbas-Schoeni/Fołta by uniform [jednolity]!
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