Canada #730T6 14c Bright Red Parliament Buildings, 1977-1982 Floral & Environment Issue, a Fine NH Coil Single Showing the G2aC and G2cR Tagging Errors, NF-fl Paper With Invisible Tagging

A fine NH mint coil single of the 14c bright red parliament buildings stamp from the 1977-1982 Floral & Environmental issue, showing the G2aC and G2cR tagging errors on the same stamp. Printed on NF-fl paper and with invisible tagging.

Although not specifically mentioned in Unitrade, the parliament stamps are found with three distinct tagging strengths:

• invisible, where the stamp appears to be untagged.
• light tagging, where the tagging bars appear visible but not dark, being a light yellowish cream.
• dark tagging, in which the bands appear deep brownish yellow, and are very obvious on the stamps.

The Adminware database values this stamp at $75 for VF mint NH. This stamp is only fine because of the 2 short perfs, so it would be worth approximately $30. The stamp offered here grades 65 as follows:

Margins/centering: 45/70

Paper freshness: 5/5

Colour: 5/5

Impression: 5/5

Absence of visible paper flaws: 5/5

Perforations: 5/10