{"id":1516,"date":"2015-02-16T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:05:31","slug":"a-page-of-the-ashford-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"A page of the Ashford collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was able to get hold on an original page of the Ashford collection. Peter T. Ashford together with S. D. Tchilinghirian created back in 1953 one of the most important works regarding the stamps of Armenia.<\/p>\n

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Page four of the handbook features an overview of the genuine and doubtful types of the so-called “framed Z” overprints.<\/p>\n

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While this is extremely useful for identifying the genuine overprints, it is still not an easy task. One of the problems is that at the time of the creation of this handbook, a lot of modern tools like scanners were not available. That means, all the drawings were made by hand. While the authors did this very accurate still there are differences to the “real thing”. Reproducing photographs were not easy and the results not very clear and lacking resolution and detail. You can imagine how useful it is to have the stamps in my hand that were used for these drawings.<\/p>\n

This is a scan of the page right out of the collection of Mr. Ashford.<\/p>\n

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To demonstrate the differences and the painstaking effort to produce exact drawings I separated the drawing, a scan of the original stamp (section) and a computed extract of the overprint of the D7 type.<\/p>\n

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There are a lot of things that were hit on spot:<\/p>\n