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Not all stamps come from the same printing house! So why should they use this white screen????

State Printing House in Berlin: 2005 Child, 2006 Dürer, 2006 Röbling
Bagel Security Printing: 2006 Golden Bulla, 2009 Frankenberg
Giesecke& Devrient, Leipzig: 2007 Pope Benedict XVI, 2008 Kartel Office, 2009 Calvin, 2010 Knappschaft, 2010 Mother Theresa, 2011 Aron flower

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Playing around with image processing software:









The white screen is definitively there, but was it printed???? And why?? A few German collectors now agree with me as far as the existence goes!

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I am using my HP G3010 scanner in this way:



The 45 degrees turn seems essential!

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The white and the black screen may seem to be aligned at first sight but they are NOT!




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And in the Franz Liszt stamps of 2011 - printed by the State Printing House in Berlin - there is not even an offset-litho plate with a screen used!

But our white screen is obvious!







You can see the screen effecting the cancellation - that getting a screen as well! - but outside the stamp itself there is no screen!



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2006 Golden Bulla:






The cancellation shows the 45 degree screen!

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2009 The University of Leipzig - Bagel Security Printing:






We see in the cancellation the 45 degree screen whereas the cyanblue has 75 and the magentared 15!

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2009 Battle of Varus - Giesecke& Devrient, Leipzig:






We see in the cancellation the 45 degree screen whereas the cyanblue has 75 and the magentared 15!

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2012 Springtime - Giesecke& Devrient, Leipzig:





We see in the cancellation the 45 degree screen whereas the cyanblue has 75 and the magentared 15!

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The background in yellow ink can be applied without using a screen! And thats happening a lot!'But some obscure reasons for this stamp a screen had been used! Why?







A screen like this but then in white colour! That is the white print!


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In 2005 a stamp got issued to commemorate the Augsburg Religion Peace Treaty, issued in sheetlets of 2x5, including the year 2005 and WITHOUT a background colour!



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Three years later the same picture but no year and this self-adhesive!





The direction of paper is horizontal! And NO background colour!

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The direction of paper is vertical! And NO background colour!

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According to Michel we are not supposed to meet this variant so often!





The direction of paper is vertical! And no background screen!

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But the variant with grey background is mass ware!







The direction of paper is vertical! And there is a grey background screen!

Is this a grey print? Or off-white print??

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