More Errors in Roumania.
The Post brings the following interesting news, coming from Bucharest:—-"The newspaper Dimineata (The Morning) in its number of the 24th of September speaks of the discovery of a rare 40 bani stamp in blue, which by error appeared in 1900 and 1901 on the sheet of the 25 bani value, and
was, no doubt, very speedily noticed by the authorities and corrected, so much so that the public did not discover it at the time.
This rare stamp was found by a young collector named I. Negresen at the end of August last while engaged in sorting some thousands of stamps, which had accumulated during the last few years. He noticed that in pairs of blue stamps one was 25 and the other 40 bani. This discovery led him to
further researches, and he found among his 30—40,000 stamps (from the years 1898-1904) two more specimens. Roumanian collectors who had large quantities of unsorted stamps commenced to look them through, and were so fortunate as to find two or three more of this error. Nobody knows when this error first appeared, nor the number that have been sold. All that can be said is that the specimens found bear the dates of 1900 and 1901 , which leads one to suppose that the error appeared five years ago. Efforts are being made to find out the exact date.
"Furthermore, we have seen an error or rare shade of the 10 bani in exactly the shade of the 40 bani. We have seen a pair of them. It is not improbable that one sheet of the 10 bani has been printed in the
colour of the 40 bani. So far we have not found another specimen, although we have examined about 20,000 stamps."
(The Philatelic Record, vol. XXVIII, February, 1906, p.43)
Pe vremea aceea, informaţiile circulau cu adevărat greoi. "noutăţile" (adică veştile care nu erau mai vechi de două-trei luni) circulau mai mult din gură în gură. Presa vremii nu putea acoperi "corespondenţi" peste tot prin lume, iar "reporterii" puteau fi persoane particulare dispuse să transmită ştirile în contul publicaţiilor publicate prin ţările străine.
Având cunoştinţele actuale, marca de 40 bani "spic" albastră (în culoarea celei de 5 bani) nu poate fi decât o marcă verde, decolorată chimic (la fel cum s-a procedat cu "faimoasa" eroare de 5 bani albastru de la emisiunea Bucureşti I, obţinută chimic din marca de 5 bani Bucureşti II). Povestea cu pereche având o marcă de 25 bani şi una de 40 bani este cel mai probabil o "înfloritură", deoarece până astăzi o asemenea piesă nu numai că nu a fost confirmată de literatura de specialitate, dar nici nu a văzut-o vreun specialist.
Cât despre varietatea de culoare a mărcii de 10 bani în nuanţa celei de 40 bani, povestea este oarecum asemănătoare, dar în sens invers: virarea chimică nu s-a mai făcut prin descompunerea culorii, ci prin oxidarea verdelui deschis pentru a fi transformat în verde mai închis. Astfel de piese nu sunt chiar greu de întâlnit prin pachete (mă rog, cel puţin pe vremea când se mai găseau).
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