Canada #491 var 6c Yellow Olive & Dark Brown Vincent Massey, 1969 Vincent Massey Issue, 2 VFNH Singles With Significant Leftward Shift Of Head. HB Paper With Normal

2 VFNH singles of the 6c yellow olive & dark brown Vincent Massey from the 1969 Vincent Massey Issue with significant leftward shift of head. HB paper with normal.

Our estimated value is $15. The stamps 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

The curling issue is the fourth 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. The Massey stamp shows similar variations to the John McCrae issue, in terms of the way the paper appears under long wave UV light.