Floating values

[Rein]

In the UK Machins stamps we find variations in the position of the value within the value tablet:



( http://www.gbps.org.uk/displays/005-bri ... nopsis.pdf )

Let's have a look at the Argentina JSM stamps of 1924 !







compare the distance between "0'" and the white horizontal line of the previous one and the next one!



compare the distance between "C'" and the white vertical line of the previous one and the next one!







compare the distance between "C'" and the white vertical line of the previous one and the next one!



compare the distance between "0'" and the white horizontal line of the previous one and the next one!



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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.....

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[Rein]

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

Now in detail:










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