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   Sally G. Waters to All   
   question re Nigeria stamps...   
   17 Jan 04 05:49:42   
   
   From: sgwaters@tampabay.rr.com   
      
   Sorry 'bout this, but I don't have any Scott catalogs here with me, and   
   while looking through some stamps tonight, I found two pairs of stamps with   
   very conspicuous color differences. The first was (like I said, sorry, but I   
   can't give you a number - no catalog!) a 20k value, probably late 60s-early   
   70s, for "vaccine production" - and I have one that appears to be with   
   correct colors (e.g., beakers full of blue, bubbling liquids), and the other   
   with the beakers entirely black; likewise, the background color in the first   
   (correct?) one is pink, but the other is almost a dull orange.   
   The second one, much more noticeable, is in the 5k stamp "cattle ranching".   
   One, which I assume is the correct one, has the middle of it in a kind of   
   yellow-green, so that the cattle appear to be grazing and are much more   
   apparent. In the second version, instead of the yellow-green, the field is   
   the same dark green throughout, and the cattle are darker as well.   
      
   So, my questions: are these genuine variations that are noted in Scott? And   
   is there any difference in values with them?   
      
   Thanks for any help or info!   
      
   Sally   
      
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