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Coming up next, there are the more
current mistakes or curiosities appeared in some ATM papers of
2002 and 2003.
The RCM-FNMT, Real Casa
de la Moneda - Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (Royal Spanish
Mint) made the rolls of 19 ATM models issued between 2001
and 2003. The first of these models was the T45 (53) -International
Council of Museums. ICOM 2001. Barcelona and the last was
T79 (87) - Soriano Puma with sidecar.
These models can be easily recognized because they correspond to Format
type 3.
From 2002, and because of
a misalignment in the manufacture process, as much in the phase
of printing as in the one of cutting and pulling out of the
sticky supports, all the rolls of the different models appear with an important
error in the precision cutting of the self adhesive support that
causes what at first it seems a progressive displacement of the impression.
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is that it's a printing mistake and is also an error of the precision
cutting adjustment of the supports, that is made to eliminate the mesh
perimetral waste and this can see perfectly when we verify the variable
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From a first perfectly delimited support,
the next labels are moving more and more the design downwards. The total
displacement is about 1 mm., and when it reach this maximum, a perfectly
delimited label reappears. This succession is cyclical and in
all the models it repeats each 21 supports.
This peculiar error is showed perfectly
in the next images corresponding to the model T74 (82). Postal architecture.
Madrid.
The images correspond to the superior
zone of a continuous strip of supports; The first label (position 1)
is perfectly delimited, and we see how as the labels move and the design
advances downwards, it progressively appears, in the superior part, a more
and more wide band with another design. The maximum takes place
in position nr. 21, where this band measures about 1 mm,
and in the next label -position 22- takes place a jump to the starting
point.
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| 5 |
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| 10 |
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| 15 |
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| 20 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 = 1 |
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This cyclical error affects
to all the models made by the RCM-FNMT (format type 3) from
the model T64 (72),
Pailebote
"Santa Eulalia".
Of course, it is much more visible in those models in which a coloured
design fills the support, but can also be perfectly appreciated in these
sequences that show only the extreme positions of several models.
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T64
(72). Schooner "Santa Eulalia" |
| 1 = 22 |
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| 21 |
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T72
(80). Postal Architecture. Ferrol |
| 1 = 22 |
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| 21 |
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Possibly the models in which this error
appears more clearly are Postal Architecture - Madrid and Donostia.
This is because in both issues there is a band with a design that it seems
not to have any relation with the original support. In the second case
there is a blue broken line that can be very evident in some of
the rolls.
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T73
(81). Postal Architecture. Donostia - San Sebastian |
| 1 = 22 |
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| 21 |
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T76
(84). Draw your stamp |
| 1 = 22 |
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| 21 |
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This peculiar cyclical errors
are also appreciable in most of the models that have small ink spots
or printing errors in different zones of the supports that are repeated
again each 21 labels.
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errors take place at the moment of the impression by offset because
of the presence of small particles or dirties. They vary from a roll to
another one and within a same roll they can arrive to disappear or even
to modify themselves.
T64 (72). Schooner
"Santa Eulalia".
White circle, appears in some rolls
each 21 labels
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This type
of errors cannot nor must be described as varieties of the supports, but
simply of precise errors of impression or curiosities and its supposed
classification is totally sterile.
T72 (80). Postal
arch. Ferrol. Red
lines on the upper right corner
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Unlike the progressive displacement
of the impression, the errors by the appearance of points or small
spots are not exclusive patrimony of the supports made by the RCM-FNMT,
but that can be found in models also made by Ovelar or, at the moment
Signe, S.A.
We can also that the RCM-FNMT
was the manufacturer of the model T56 (64). Monet Goyon and T78
(86). Sanglas 3501, the only two models that exist with versions with
the security cut in both senses, and T59 (67). New Hudson, also
the only model that was made in its totality with the security cut opened
towards the left. They are possibly also manufacture errors too ...
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