Canada #1459&var 43c Multicoloured Helen Alice Kinnear, 1993 Canadian Women Issue, 2 VFNH Singles Showing Both The Bluish Violet & More Reddish Violet Background Colours, NF/DF1 Coated Papers Paper

2 VFNH singles of the 43c multicoloured Helen Alice Kinnear from the 1993 Canadian Women Issue showing both the bluish violet & more reddish violet background colours, NF/DF1 Coated Papers paper. On this issue the background colours show some variation in tone. I have seen three variations of the Marie-Josephine Gerin-Lajoie stamp, but only one of the Pitseolak stamp. The others I have seen two shades each of. A few of these seem to be scarcer than the others. #1456, the Adelaide Hoodless stamp has both a bluish violet and a more reddish violet background. This is also true of the Helen Alice Kinnear stamp, which is usually found in the bluish violet shade. The Pitseolak stamp is almost always a very light greenish white, but I have found one example in which the backround colour is a very pale bluish white. The Marie-Josephine Gerin-Lajoie stamp is usually found in either a cinnamon brown background, or a cumin brown background, but there is an example which is a noticeably darker cumin brown shade. It is scarcer than the two basic shades. This lot contains both shades of the Helen Alice Kinnear stamp.

Unitrade does not list these varieties, but our estimate of the value is $5. The stamps offered here grade 80 as follows:

Centering/Margins: 50/70

Paper Freshness: 5/5

Colour: 5/5

Impression: 5/5

Absence of Visible Paper Flaws: 5/5

Perforations: 10/10