Lot 99 Canada #119 20c Deep Yellowish Olive (Olive Green) King George V, 1925-1928 Admiral Issue, A VGNH Single With A Normal Frameline, Dry Printing, on Unlisted Thin Paper

A VGNH single of the 20c deep yellowish olive (olive green in Unitrade) King George V from the 1925-1928 Admiral Issue with a normal frameline, dry printing. This paper is different from the thin experimental paper used for the wet printings, but it is very clearly thinner than the normal medium wove paper.

Unitrade values this at $100 for the normal paper in fine condition, so VG should be worth at least $50. The stamp offered here grades 60 as follows:

Centering/Margins: 40/70

Paper Freshness: 5/5

Colour: 5/5

Impression: 5/5

Absence of Visible Paper Flaws: 0/5 (light gum wrinkle)

Perforations: 5/10
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.