Foro de Filatelia Argentina

Hardly had I found a long overlooked type of paper -The Wiggins Teape uncoated paper with a parallel watermark and a symmetrical paper mesh with brown fibers all over it!! - or the next type of paper turned up!

How come that during 60 or more years serious philatelists either overlook certain things [types of paper or design] or consider it not worthwhile to tell others about it?????

Is it because of the fact that when the catalogues do not mention a certain thing that the collectors accept this as a "fait accompli"??? The experts haven't seen anything worthwhile so it MUST be not worthwhile????

I know that this is not a typical Argentine mental attitude! All over the world philatelists take the written words for the definitive state of the art!

There is NO FINAL word in philately! What I discover today can be outdated to-morrow!

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The so-called Tela paper - also Wiggins Teape paper with the same watermark as before with a higher density [30/20] but now with a coarses density of 24/22 - was introduced in February 1941!

In another thread I started to find out whether in other countries this type of density for manufacturing paper had been used. For New Zealand stamps Tela had been introduced in September 1941! So, more or less in the same period, by the same manufacturer Wiggins Teape!

I found the first brown fibers in commemorative stamps of 1943! Once found, I browsed through all my other Tela stamps! And I found more than I could hope for!

But while the year 1943 could be connected with War conditions, why should we have found brown fibers in the years 1935-1937??

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Not all of them are so spectacular, but all have much more then a one or two stray fibers!

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The 1p Cartero may not have that many brown fibers at the back! At the front the number of brown fibers is amazing!

How can this be overlooked!!!???

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Plenty of brown fibers in the block of 4! How can you overlook that??

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Hardly any brown fibers! But some red ones!






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Brown fibers are found so far only in the medium sized commemorative stamps! But we also have some P&R I values:






This is the 10c Rivadavia in offset-litho, chestnut-brown in type A! Wiggins Teape paper with a parallel watermark and a symmetrical paper mesh! Density 24/22 AKA "Tela"!


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This is the 10c Rivadavia Servicio Oficial in offset-litho, chestnut-brown in type A! Wiggins Teape paper with a parallel watermark and a symmetrical paper mesh! Density 24/22 AKA "Tela"!


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This is the 12c Mitre in offset-litho, vermillion on Wiggins Teape paper with a parallel watermark and a symmetrical paper mesh! Density 24/22 AKA "Tela"!


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Congratulations, Rein!!!

This is the 40c Azucar in offset-litho, on Wiggins Teape paper with a parallel watermark and a symmetrical paper mesh! Density 24/22 AKA "Tela"!

Dated 24.11.1944!

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