Lot 102 Canada #119b 20c Yellowish Olive Green (Sage Green) King George V, 1925-1928 Admiral Issue, A VG OG Single, Wet Printing

A fine appearing, but VG OG single of the 20c yellowish olive green (sage green in Unitrade) King George V from the 1925-1928 Admiral Issue with a normal frameline, wet printing. A small horizontal crease reduces the grade from fine to VG.

Unitrade values this at $140 for fine, so VG should be worth $70. The stamp offered here grades 55 as follows:

Centering/Margins: 35/70

Paper Freshness: 5/5

Colour: 5/5

Impression: 5/5

Absence of Visible Paper Flaws: 5/5

Perforations: 10/10

Adjustment for light horizontal crease: -10 points

Unitrade's treatment of the Admiral issue is quite simplified in the sense that only the broad shade groups are listed, and the retouched frameline is only listed on a few values, even though most of the first colours of each value can be found with both retouched frame and normal frame in the upper right spandrel of the design. In terms of shades, what we have done is to sort the stamps into each identifiable shade, name them using the Gibbons Stamp Colour Key and then attempt to assign each shade to one of the groups listed in Unitrade. This is fairly easy to do when you have all the shades identified and laid next to one another. The difference between the retouched and redrawn frameline is another source of confusion for many collectors. Basically, the normal frame, from the early printings has horizontal shading lines that terminate in a uniform straight line, with no vertical line connecting them. The retouched frameline is a light vertical line which has been added to join all the horizontal shading lines. It is generally only found on wet printings. The re-drawn frameline on the other hand is a thicker, heavier line and is only found on dry printings.