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I can really only speak for Canada as handled by the Unitrade catalog. If a particular stamp has a reprinted version that is known the catalog gives any difference, An example that was covered here a little while ago was reprints on some early Nova Scotia and New Brunswick stamps where the originals were on bluish paper and the reprints on a harder white paper. If a stamp has a known reprint it should be mentioned in a specialized catalog - I assume!
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Thank you Harvey,
I certainly agree with you that there should be more information available for items such as that.
You are certainly qualified to be the president of the PC and I will vote for you at the first meeting we have.
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Some like to distinguish between a reprint and a reproduction, e.g., the former on an existing plate and the latter on a new plate. When not postally valid, they are just labels to me. Folks justify huge prices for US #3 and #4 by making this distinction despite them being labels IMO, not stamps, as they weren’t valid for postal use; and that’s just my cynical opinion on the label bit. Certain catalogs will cover whatever the market expects and in the US, the market finds these labels legitimate, probably because the authority that made them is not questioned. Often catalogs will mention that reprints exist but not give identifying information and other times they do. I would expect a catalog to have some rules they follow for this sort of thing, but I never notice any such rules or even looked into it.
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How does anyone find out if a stamp is a reprint or not? Is there some kind of guide that explains how to detect such an animal or is it supposition on the sellers part the stamp may be counterfeit? Why wouldn't the printers of catalogs tell you how to find out the value of this type of stamp, like the thousands of stamps that have been reprinted by many countries but they also tell you what, why and where they have been listed, along with the information we rely on while collecting. In the last couple of months or so, I have seen several listings that mention reprint in a couple of ways, without any information why they suspect the stamp to use the reprint tag.
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20 Sep 2023
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re: Reprints
I can really only speak for Canada as handled by the Unitrade catalog. If a particular stamp has a reprinted version that is known the catalog gives any difference, An example that was covered here a little while ago was reprints on some early Nova Scotia and New Brunswick stamps where the originals were on bluish paper and the reprints on a harder white paper. If a stamp has a known reprint it should be mentioned in a specialized catalog - I assume!
As to your message at the bottom of your posts. You're lucky to actually belong to a procrastinators group, I never actually got around to joining one!
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re: Reprints
Thank you Harvey,
I certainly agree with you that there should be more information available for items such as that.
You are certainly qualified to be the president of the PC and I will vote for you at the first meeting we have.
Mike
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re: Reprints
Some like to distinguish between a reprint and a reproduction, e.g., the former on an existing plate and the latter on a new plate. When not postally valid, they are just labels to me. Folks justify huge prices for US #3 and #4 by making this distinction despite them being labels IMO, not stamps, as they weren’t valid for postal use; and that’s just my cynical opinion on the label bit. Certain catalogs will cover whatever the market expects and in the US, the market finds these labels legitimate, probably because the authority that made them is not questioned. Often catalogs will mention that reprints exist but not give identifying information and other times they do. I would expect a catalog to have some rules they follow for this sort of thing, but I never notice any such rules or even looked into it.
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