Lot 184 Canada #483i 5c Yellow, Black & Red Lacrosse Players, 1968 Lacrosse, A VFNH Single On DF Grayish White Paper With Kiss Print Doubling Of Red & Raised '5'

A VFNH single of the 5c yellow, black & red Lacross Players from the 1968 Lacross on DF grayish white paper with kiss print doubling of red & raised '5'.

Unitrade values this at $50. The stamp offered here grades 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

This is the second of the experimental perf 10 issues printed by BABN. The paper is generally always DF or is very moderately flecked with a few HF or HB fibres. Greyish and greyish white are the default colours under UV, with bright cream, ivory and deep NF violet grey being the uncommon types. The so-called fluorescent paper on the Curling issue is really not much brighter than other flecked examples of any of the other perf. 10 BABN issues like this issue, George Brown, or the Lacrosse stamp. My experience is that any fluorescent paper on these issues is much, much scarcer than the dull papers, easily by a margin of 20 to 1. So, I would disagree with Unitrade's classification of the dull paper being the better stamp on the 1969 Curling issue. I have done my best to capture these differences by taking pictures with my camera under UV light, but the differences can be harder to see than in real life. That should be borne in mind if you are looking at the scans and cannot tell the difference between them.