1923-1935 José de San Martin - systematical characteristics

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The 10c stamp "sin punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!



and also with the 'slash":



The dots inside the numerals are part of the type I !!

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Some information gets easily hided!

I reported some of this last year in June under the title "Floating Values"

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There is another aspect that some of you may have already seen!

Most stamps displayed have a bluish dot halfway up the left part of the "O"!

Not all stamps have it, but this may be in a way comparable to the guiding dots in the recess-printed stamps of the 19th century (Compañia Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco, Buenos Ayres). The value itself is floating and most likely had to be affixed inside the common design of the JSM stamps, one or two guiding dots must have facilitated this!

The 20c stamp is by far not the only value having such dots! The 2c has 2 or 3 dots, the 10c one, etc.....

Let's take a look at the 2c JSM both with dot and without dot!

Now in detail:

Some of the 2c had the "slash"!

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[Rein]

There is another aspect that some of you may have already seen!

Most stamps displayed have a bluish dot halfway up the left part of the "O"!

Not all stamps have it, but this may be in a way comparable to the guiding dots in the recess-printed stamps of the 19th century (Compañia Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco, Buenos Ayres). The value itself is floating and most likely had to be affixed inside the common design of the JSM stamps, one or two guiding dots must have facilitated this!

The 20c stamp is by far not the only value having such dots! The 2c has 2 or 3 dots, the 10c one, etc...

The floating value is most obvious in the 20c!

Apart from the "slash" I found another characteristic in the area around the value tablet that occurs in more than one value! In the 20c I could locate it in column 4 / row 5 of the root block of 5x5 !! So it is part of the root block and maybe the "slash" is in column 5 / row 3 [it is very faint in my right half sheet of 10x10 of the 20c!]

What does this all point at? A COMMON root block of 5x5 for ALL values [except 25c?] in which the "values" were mounted in a separate reproduction stage... I wonder whether José Merlo has ever seen a philatelic study paying attention to this???

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The 1c stamp "sin punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!

and also with the 'slash":




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The 5c stamp "sin punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!

and also with the 'slash":




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The 12c stamp "sin punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!

and also with the 'slash":




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The 20c stamp "sin punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!

and also with the 'slash":




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The 24c stamp "sin punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!

and also with the 'slash":




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So far, we have seen the "slash " in the Sin Punto serie for the: 1c, 2c, 3c, 4c, 5c, 10c, 12c, 20c and 24c. No 1/2c, 25c , 30c or 50c yet ....

Another characteristic which I discovered much later was the "double slash":



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Another characteristic which I discovered much later was the "double slash":



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Another characteristic which I discovered much later was the "double slash":



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Another characteristic which I discovered much later was the "double slash":



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The 50c stamp "con punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!

And also with the 'slash":




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The "double slash" was just as the single "slash" already present in the "con punto" period!

The 3c stamp "con punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!



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The "double slash" was just as the single "slash" already present in the "con punto" period!

The 4c stamp "con punto" on Dutch paper with the vertical direction of paper!



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