QUEBEC TERCENTENARY

5¢ Blue NON-Re-entries

July 16, 1908

A re-entry on this stamp has been listed in the Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps for some time now, but in over 30+ years of specializing in re-entries, I have never seen one. Indeed, I've seen a great many touted to be the re-entry, only to find there was no doubling at all, but many, many remnants of unerased guidelines and guide dots, along with a lot of scratches and so forth. The plate was obviously put into use before it had been properly cleaned and prepared for printing. In 2010 the proof sheets in Ottawa were examined and no evidence of re-entries were found. In the 2011 Edition of the Unitrade Specialized, this listing has finally been removed at my recommendation.

Below are examples of such stamps, often mistaken for re-entries, showing numerous guidelines, guide dots, scratches, etc., that SHOULD have been erased before the plate was used. Some of these markings can appear quite striking, but again, no actual re-entries were found!

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5¢ Habitation

Does it exist? No!

Here are several examples of such stamps, mistaken for re-entries, showing numerous guidelines, guide dots, scratches, etc., that SHOULD have been erased before the plate was used.

Note that the 'dot'often found in the 'P' of POSTAGE is actually a position dot used when laying out the positions of the designs to be entered on the plate. On the second example, parts of the vertical guideline can be seen going through this dot.

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^ Courtesy of Dave Noss ^

^ From the RETrimble Collection ^

^ From the RETrimble Collection ^

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Ralph E. Trimble

Specialist in BNA Re-entries
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