Canada #483ivar 5c Yellow, Black & Red Lacrosse Players, 1968 Lacrosse, 2 VFNH Singles With Moderate & Weak Kiss Print (Doubling Of Red), Unchecked As To Paper

2 VFNH singles of the 5c yellow, black & red Lacross Players from the 1968 Lacross with moderate & weak kiss print (doubling of red), unchecked as to paper. The strong kiss print shows clear doubling of all letters of Canada and a silhouette around the indigenous figure. The moderate version shows much weaker doubling of all or most letters of Canada and a much weaker silhouette around the figure. The weak version shows weak doubling of only some parts of the letters in Canada and almost no doubling of the figure.

Our estimate of the value is $15. The stamps offered here grade between 75 and 80 as follows:

Centering/Margins: 45/70, 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 moderatey 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 fluorecent paper on these issues os 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.