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Old November 17th 04, 10:13 AM
Klaus Rampelmann
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Hello to all,

a collegue at work has a question :

he is collecting Australia. In september 2000 a series of 16 stamps
was issued portraying Australian gold medal winners. According to
catalogue there are two versions, one printed in offset, the other in
digital (whatever that may be). My collegue is not quite sure that his
dealer gave him the two different versions. He now wants to know what
details on these stamps will tell him whether it's the offset or
whether it's the digital version.

TIA

Klaus
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Old November 17th 04, 10:13 PM
Roger Smith
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"Klaus Rampelmann" wrote in message
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Hello to all,

a collegue at work has a question :

he is collecting Australia. In september 2000 a series of 16 stamps
was issued portraying Australian gold medal winners. According to
catalogue there are two versions, one printed in offset, the other in
digital (whatever that may be). My collegue is not quite sure that his
dealer gave him the two different versions. He now wants to know what
details on these stamps will tell him whether it's the offset or
whether it's the digital version.

TIA

Klaus


Klaus, hello.

The printing on the digital sheets is much coarser, when viewed under a
magnifying glass, and shows the manner in which the colour patterns are
built up. The offset (litho) printings, on the other hand, provide a very
much cleaner impression.

Please see the attached scans which I have made of part of the Ian Thorpe
sheets. I hope that I have not classified these sheets the wrong way round
and that it is indeed the litho print which provides the better image.

I shall copy this message to the newsgroup without the attached scans, but I
am happy to email them to somebody who is prepared to post them on a server
for others to look at (combined size 320KB).

Best regards, Roger


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Old November 17th 04, 11:00 PM
ThibauT
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Pour participer à nos (d)ébats, "Roger Smith"
sussurait le Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:13:13 GMT :


he is collecting Australia. In september 2000 a series of 16 stamps
was issued portraying Australian gold medal winners. According to
catalogue there are two versions, one printed in offset, the other in
digital (whatever that may be). My collegue is not quite sure that his
dealer gave him the two different versions. He now wants to know what
details on these stamps will tell him whether it's the offset or
whether it's the digital version.


The printing on the digital sheets is much coarser, when viewed under a
magnifying glass, and shows the manner in which the colour patterns are
built up. The offset (litho) printings, on the other hand, provide a very
much cleaner impression.

Please see the attached scans which I have made of part of the Ian Thorpe
sheets. I hope that I have not classified these sheets the wrong way round
and that it is indeed the litho print which provides the better image.

I shall copy this message to the newsgroup without the attached scans, but I
am happy to email them to somebody who is prepared to post them on a server
for others to look at (combined size 320KB).

Best regards, Roger


Hi,
I'm interested by this file, as I'm not sure what I have kept in my
collection ;o)
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ThibauT
Best regards from Vergèze (France), city of Perrier ;o)
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Old November 17th 04, 11:14 PM
TC Blair
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(Klaus Rampelmann) wrote in message . com...
Hello to all,

a collegue at work has a question :

he is collecting Australia. In september 2000 a series of 16 stamps
was issued portraying Australian gold medal winners. According to
catalogue there are two versions, one printed in offset, the other in
digital (whatever that may be). My collegue is not quite sure that his
dealer gave him the two different versions. He now wants to know what
details on these stamps will tell him whether it's the offset or
whether it's the digital version.

TIA

Klaus


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Hello Klaus:

Australia - Scott 1875-1890
Digital printing
shinier appearance
Olympic rings, flag stars and flag edge have ragged appearance
sheets of 10, rouletted right margin +
red animal imprint in lower right margin [based on city of printing]
(Platapus-Sydney, Kookaburra-Canberra, Koala-Brisbane,
Swan-Perth, Kangaroo-Adelaide, Opossum-Melborne)

Australia - Scott 1891-1906
Lithographic printing
duller appearance
Olympic rings, flag stars and flag edge have crisp appearance
sheets of 10, straight cut right margin +
red map imprint in lower right margin

plus Australia - Scott 1907 Cathy Freeman with torch design (only Litho)

Sheets of 25 [17 stamps (1891-1907) + 8 labels] were also printed.
They are only available in the Australia Post annual collection.
cv US $8.50 for sheet of 25.

Scott cv of each of the 33 stamps is US $.50 mint
The 16 digital stamps are US $.50 used
The 17 lithographic stamps are US $.40 used

I hope that this has been helpful to you.

Blair Stannard (TC)
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Old November 19th 04, 10:21 AM
Klaus Rampelmann
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Thanks to all who have replied, either here on the forum or directly
via email.
My collegue has checked his stamps and he was happy to see that he's
got both the digital and litho prints.

Klaus
 




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