Newfoundland Re-entries
1897-1911
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Scott #62ii 1897
Discovery of Newfoundland
2¢ John Cabot
Major Re-entry
Plate Position #76
This surprising find shows sharp doubling of the entire lower portion of the design, including the lower left and lower right framelines, all of the lower lettering, both 2’s and their surrounding ornaments, and the bottom of the portrait...virtually everything below the level of Cabot’s eyes.
This is the first re-entry to be reported on this stamp (Sept. 2005) and creates hope that many more re-entries on this and other Newfoundland issues are still waiting to be found.
Please notify me of others you may know of for inclusion here.
March 2008 - Purchased and examined a full sheet of 100. Only this single re-entry was found on the entire sheet (Rats!) in pp76.
August 2010 - Purchased a Plate Proof block of 4 with the major re-entry in the lower right corner. I added this at the beginning here, as the proof details are SO crisp and clear!
If you look at its position in the block of four, you will see the impression of this stamp was entered lower than pp75 to its left; even when re-entered a little further upwards, the entire impression is still too low!
^ From the RETrimble Collection ^
^ From the RETrimble Collection ^
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Scott #69 1897
Discovery of Newfoundland
12¢ Willow Ptarmigan
Major Misplaced Entry
There is clear evidence of an 8.0mm (!) misplaced entry showing as a band across the stamp to the left of the 'T' of TWELVE. At least 7 horizontal lines of the upper left corner design can be seen extending into the margin at the left, with one of the lines crossing the 'T' itself. There are also a number of tiny markings in the somewhat 'empty' space above the head of the large central bird, extending over almost to the neck of the upper bird. These markings are undoubtedly part of the letters of NEWFOUNDLAND. A couple of marks are also found in the scroll design on the right.
This may have been caused by a dropped transfer roll.
^ From the RETrimble Collection ^
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Royal Family Issue1897-1901
Scott #81-82
2¢ Orange and 2¢ Vermilion
King Edward VII
Misplaced Entry
Plate Position #1
This stamp shows a marked shift out into the right margin. Marks are also seen in the 'D.'
The late Bill MacDonald originally reported this stamp to me. However, the scan to the right is from a block found by Earl Noss.
Courtesy of Earl Noss.
Earl just confirmed the plate position as being from position #1 on his full sheet of 100. Thanks Earl!
Above - Courtesy of Earl Noss.
Above - Courtesy of Bill MacDonald
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Royal Family Issue1897-1901
Scott #81-82
2¢ Orange and 2¢ Vermilion
King Edward VII
Major Re-entry
Plate Position #91
Bob Turkowski recently sent me a scan of a new re-entry he has found on this stamp and it is indeed a lovely one! Doubling is found in and above parts of NEWFOUNDLAND, particularly in the 'O' & 'DLAND.'
I immediately contacted my friend, Earl Noss, a frequent contributor to these pages, as I knew Earl owns a full sheet of 100 of this stamp. (He plated the misplaced entry shown above from his sheet.) Within a very short time, Earl had located this re-entry in the LL corner of his sheet in position 91. He quickly sent me a scan showing this stamp with full selvedge and proving the position, along with a close-up of the re-entry details. These scans are found below Bob's scan on the right.
Yet another nice item has been added to our list of Newfoundland re-entries!
Courtesy of Bob Turkowski
Courtesy of Earl Noss
Courtesy of Bob Turkowski
Courtesy of Earl Noss
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Scott #83
3¢ Queen Alexandra
Re-entry
To Come - One is known, but I have to locate photo.
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Scott #85 1899
5¢ Duke of York
Major Misplaced Entry
Plate Position #1
This is another misplaced entry likely caused by a dropped transfer roll. Diagonal lines of the engraving on the Duke's jacket are found in and above some of the letters of 'POSTAGE' AND 'FIVE CENTS.'
I located this stamp in the upper left corner of the sheet of 100 in plate position #1 when I was able to examine a full sheet owned by John Jamieson of Saskatoon Stamp Centre a number of years ago. I have since obtained an upper left corner block of 15 (3 X 5) with full selvedge which also shows this misplaced entry.
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Ralph E. Trimble
Specialist in BNA
Re-entries
retrimble@rogers.com
Date Created: January 5, 2004.