leonardoleidi escribió:Excellent your post Rein!!
Leonardo,
the author of the 2003 Poland Handbook told me this evening that he had no idea how to describe that type of paper - cardboard like of the Kraków Festival - and no one in his philatelic environment could advise him, that he fell back on the description of the 1960 Handbook! So, indeed as I suspected, played copy-cat!
But he also told me that he has all 3 values with the whiter paper! And the 20gr on paper with the brown fibers! So, it would not surprise me that all 3 values do exist in both types of paper!
And that during 50 years - or maybe even longer than that - stamp collectors had to BELIEVE in a catalogue/handbook inventory and had never asked questions about something that turns out to be a COMPLETE MISREPRESENTATION of reality....
Or as I wrote here before: Don't follow leaders they are only parking meters...
viewtopic.php?f=137&t=3179&p=22533&hilit=parking#p22533
Do not just believe what is written in Yvert, Stanley Gibbons, Michel, Kneitschel, Mello Teggia, Göttig-Jalil or Pettigiani without asking yourselves common sense questions that often arise from what you have noticed in your collection...
to be continued ....
