EOIG & Roger ;-)
As promised, here is the "strange" (to me) cancel of Lausanne.
On the left of it, the 5c. green of plate 2, Issue of 1900, 25th anniversary of UPU (at my home, we call 'Jubileum' that one that comes every 50 years, not every 25 years ;-) with tye best variety of the Issue for the 5 c. denomination: retouch on the bottom frame line and, consequently, missing 'FLORIAN S' in the inscriptions at bottom.
Cancelled with "BASEL - BRF EXP" razor CDS on "15.X.00 - 8" (October 15, 1900... at 8 o'clock?), this stamp occupied position 170 in the sheet of 200 (four panes of 50).
This position is univocally identifiable also from the small -- but intense -- colour dots, one between 7 and 5 of '1875' and one beneath the 1 of 1900.
Just found it in the lot (catalogue value Euro 250,00), it is genuine and perfect.
Still from plate II of the same UPU Issue of 1900, here is the entirely newly engraved weapon shield on the 10 cents aniline red (- extremely water fugitive ink -- seher wasserempfindlich!--, I know something about it, unfortunately - 'bright orange' answer under UV light). It's another one amongst the 'topper varieties' of the Issue; here is a detail of a normal shield, at left, and the re- engraved shield at right. Besides the many difference, described in the Zumstein and Michel catalogues, the re- engraved shield misses the small red dot on the left white margin of the shield, which is recurrent, as though as a 'secret sign', in the few hundreds of stamps I examined.
This one occupied position 139 in the sheet of 200 (4 panes, or groups, as I call it, of 50).
On the top frame line this position shows a small indentation, a smudge on its outer portion, right above 'UN' of 'UNION', which is common to at least (AFAIK) other three positions in the sheet.
It is cancelled with "AARAU" razor CDS on September 1900; genuine but defective along right margin (small tears, black spots, nasty creases to the edge, likely for having been applied 'a cheval' on the postal object where it originated.
I would have much more to show, I love Swiss postage stamps! With the time and more material examined I will show you more Swiss varieties ( preferably with, but also without Razor cancels ;-)).
All the best,
Paolo
P.S. I am very happy also because I received this ROMAGNE lot today.
The plate fault on the 4 Baj. is extremely scarce (you can call it rare in unused condition, be confident ;-));
on the paper, only 750 pieces were printed in 1859, this one recurring only at position 48, every sheet of 120 (two groups of 60 one over each other witth gutter interpane) for a declared total printing of 90000 copies of the 4 Baj..
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