FREE: 1932 Venezuela stamp, Simon Bolivar, printed on Winchester Security Paper, Scott #304, est CV $13.45

The listing, 1932 Venezuela stamp, Simon Bolivar, printed on Winchester Security Paper, Scott #304, est CV $13.45 has ended.

Up for auction please find an interesting 1932 Venezuela stamp issue showing Simon Bolivar on bluish banknote paper by Waterlow & Sons in London. This is a used Scott #304, very fine, estimated CV approx $13.45 but generally hard to find. Photos above show front and back, with intervening inverted photo exposure to see the pattern. From a smoke free home. Please see below for more information on these intriguing, lovable but rather unsightly stamps. From a smoke free home. Thank you for bidding!

Source: https://www.linns.com/news/world-stamps-postal-history/what-are-those-unusual-wavy-lines-on-your-stamps.html

In the 1930s, Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., in London, printed some stamps for Venezuela (Scott 293-304 and C17-C40) on bluish Winchester security paper that the firm used for printing banknotes. The blue was in a burelage pattern.

The pattern was created as part of the paper during its manufacture, so the stamp image is printed on top of the visible pattern of arcs, giving the stamps a rather dark and strange look. The stamp image can appear to be overwhelmed by the burelage, and a postmark makes the visual effect even worse.