Firstly because it is a nice presentation for the stamps, proudly flanking their year of birth.
Because we find easily, and at all prices.
Either we never find, for some!
Secondly, because the word is beautiful, evoking both the enjoyment of fine wines from our vineyards, the recent song by Pascal Obispo.
Because most of the type Sower stamps were printed several years, and we can trace their lives change paper or ink with an infinite range of possible shades, and even new types more or less rare.
And also because there are true rarities, which are also not necessarily those that we believe, if we rely only course catalog or market prices.
Some examples:
There are two types of 35 cents with purple markings lean, known as Number 136.
Both were printed in 1906, thus: the same vintage 6. The distinction
type I / type II is not always easy, but remains essential for the collector: one is very rare, while the other is easy for most traders (although it should pay enough when the even)!
Why?
Because the first edition was much shorter than the second!
As the design of the type I was not satisfactory, it adopted its manufacturing process to refinish it, and then printed the type II, a little more successful.
The width of the bridge makes all the difference: it is the distance separating the two stamps (boxes 15 and 16) on either side of the vintage.
Type I has a bridge much broader than the type II. Few people know, be careful!
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X paper, high quality, with its recognizable striated gum, which was used here in 1915
(striations that can be seen on the face sometimes)
And the equally famous paper GC (for FMCG) used restriction period during the war, between 1916 and 1920, thus much lower quality. There are many nuances.
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The width of the bridge, the type of paper, or even that of the stamp, can also sometimes very useful for some stamps, to distinguish between two vintages printed 10 years apart: nothing like as much to an August 1, 1908 8 of 1918 ...
Look carefully at this 3 vintages: they are much different than it appears at first sight!
It is 1913, type IA
This one is from 1923, still in the Type IA: the + bridge is narrow.
While the latter is also in 1923, but the type IIIA, which is much rarer, and from a punch quite different (note Based on 2 thick). ************
Sometimes the year is missing: and this is quite rare, even unique!
Especially some of which we know only one copy!
I've seen them all, but only in photography for some, unfortunately unaffordable ...
The 5 cent green vintage is still without him ...
But attention, there is a trap for 10 cents Sower with soil, no year is normal for the first draw, while the second draw perform well on 6 of 1906. We will see one day why ...
To my knowledge, no vintage can occur for the following stamps:
- 130-134 - 135 - 137-138 - 140 - 158 -
and perhaps other still to discover ...
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