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Index > Cook Islands > 1967 Decimal Overprints
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Message #217
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criddell
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Probably nothing new to long term Cook Is collectors but thought I should just put on record that I have the 10cents stamp with a really heavy offset of the overprint on the gummed side. Also from the same source is a pair with the offset variety but additionally one of the stamps is the thin overprint. Does anyone know how many times the thin overprint occurs within the sheet?
2012-02-05 13:14
Message #391
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jknierim
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According to the 1971 SG Elizabethan Catalogue the 10c surcharge was printed on half sheets, that is, 80 (8 x 10) layout. The variety thin figures "10" and "c" occurs in rows 3/4, 5/5, 9/8, or three times in a sheet of 80. 44,109 copies of the 10c were sold, or about 551 sheets. That would indicate that 1653 stamps with the thin overprint were sold.

I am not aware of any modern catalogue listing these varieties.

J. Gus Knierim

Shown here is the 10c "thin figures" variety from row 3 / pos. 4
[Last edited by jknierim, 2013-09-04 01:13]
2013-09-03 22:02
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Index > Cook Islands > 1967 Decimal Overprints