rare issues with different cover paper in other countries ?

Ola Martinsson Ola.Martinsson at uab.ericsson.se
Thu Mar 6 17:57:35 CET 2003


In Sweden there are some issues between 1949 and 1967 (at least as far 
as I know of) that have a different cover paper than whats usual.
For some issues there seems to be about the same amount of issues with 
both types of paper in the cover.
E.g. #2 1949 that exists in one variant with a very thick rough paper 
and one with thinner smooth paper. The smooth paper is the common for 
most of the other issues at this time.

There also exist issues with only the thick rough paper and no smooth paper.

And some issues are extremely rare with another type of paper.
The most striking one is Walt Disneys serier (compares to the USA one 
shots) #7 1953 that exists with three different types of paper in the cover.
They are the same thickness but one is with subdued colours (or dull 
maybe is the word, "matt" in Swedish) (common), one is semi-glossy or 
semi-dull (rare) and one is glossy (extremely rare).

The newest variant that I know of is #35 1967 that exists in a semi-dull 
type.

Now I wonder is it the same in other countries ? That some issues have 
different kinds of cover paper. And in that case is some type more rare 
than the other one ?

There also are some issues that have very different shades of the 
colours on the cover but that probably just is imperfection in the 
printing with the colours. However there exist one exeption #46 1972 
was printed with a green logo (common) and with a yellow logo (rare).

As a curiosity there exists a copy of the first Swedish Kalle Anka # 1 
1948 (compares to USA WDC&S) that totally lacks the blue colour on the 
cover. This means that Donalds clothes are rose instead of blue. As far 
as I understand it lacks one of the printing colours. How I wish that it 
was mine.

Ola in a still some snow in Stockholm 0 degrees and dark.




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