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DANZIG REPORT  No. 52  -  -  G.P.S STUDY  GROUP

Editor: John H. Bloecher Jr., 1743 Little Creek Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21207

This Report, No. 52, will deal mainly with Luftpost studies, but you will be pleased to know that we are finally able to take advantage of a break-through in video enlarging and direct printing from a CCTV monitor. In Report No. 47, you were told of experiments using a Newvicon camera and a monitor, which were eventually improved to provide color components. Now, with the use of a Sony UP-103 Video Graphic Printer, we can copy the enlargement directly onto thermal paper for a black and white 97 x 120 mm print, as shown in actual size below. Pardon our exuberance, but this opens the door to many articles on stamp varieties. Small details won’t show on same—sized prints, but we are now ready to embark on studies that have been held due to lack of enlarged illustrations. In our first use of the technique, an old favorite, Mi. #51I will come under the camera. Hopefully, you will see things that have eluded our eyes for years. The trailing edge break is a surprise that shows only in this stamp and not in our two sheets, as seen in F.7 or 17 below.

Above: Mi. #51 as our Type S, showing the 1mm dent in the leading edge. One of our sheets shows a nail mark 2 mm from the dent, perhaps explaining its origin. The trailing edge break shown in this example will force us to call it Type 51 Sa.

 

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