Lot 56 Canada #113, 113iv 7c Dull Chrome Yellow (Yellow Ochre) King George V, 1911-1928 Admiral Issue, A Good NH Pair, Wet Printing, Showing Re-Touched Frameline on Left Stamp

A fine appearing but VG NH pair of the 7c dull chrome yellow (yellow ochre) King George V from the 1911-1928 Admiral Issue, wet printing, with the left stamp showing the re-touched frameline, and normal frameline on the right stamp. Heavily vertical creases on both stamps, but a useful reference pair that shows that the re-touched frameline can occur on the same sheet as the normal frameline on the early printings. Unitrade values this at $220 for a fine pair, so good should be worth $55. The pair offered here grades 50 as follows:

Centering/Margins: 40/70

Paper Freshness: 5/5

Colour: 5/5

Impression: 5/5

Absence of Visible Paper Flaws: 5/5

Perforations: 10/10

Adjustment for heavy creases: -20 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.