Lot 126 Canada #120ii 50c Agate Black (Brown Black) King George V, 1925-1928 Admiral Issue, A Fine Expertly Regummed Single, Wet Printing, Retouched Frameline, Unlisted in Unitrade

A fine expertly regummed single of the 50c agate black (brown black in Unitrade) King George V from the 1925-1928 Admiral Issue, wet printing, showing an unlisted re-touched frameline. Unitrade does not list the retouched frameline on the wet printings, but only the re-drawn frameline on the more common plate 4 printings. However this one is clearly an earlier printing with a retouched frameline.
Unitrade values this at $120 for the stamp with normal frameline and OG. Regummed is essentialy the same as no gum, and this is usually worth about half of OG, so $60. The stamp offered here grades 65 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

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.