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Can a whole sheet even be an item? See #2284985 .
On top of that, the information provided is completely off the mark.

Issue group: 1936 Cijfers and El Cid. However, legislation now indicates that the issue consisted of Cijfers, Cid, and Isabel, the first issue of which was on January 5, 1937. Therefore, there cannot be an issue group in 1936. If a uniform design is nevertheless maintained, it is incomprehensible why Cijfers and El Cid constitute a group, especially since only the 5 cents "Cid" and the 15 cents "Isabel" were issued on January 5, 1937. The numeral stamps are of a later issue.

The printer is FNMT. This means that the stamp was not put into circulation even before 1940. That year has also been entered. However, FNMT did not print the stamps from 1937 at all.

The perforation is K11¼. FNMT. However, the number of perforations in the vertical direction reveals that this cannot be a perf. 11¼. This is the K13¼ from 1949. The fairly regular comb perforation is another indication that it is the 1949 issue.
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Can a whole sheet even be an item?
Yes, a full sheet is allowed, no parts. Do pay attention to Dimensions and Quantity.
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Besides all the errors and the completely inadequate information, that is precisely what has not been entered.
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Esquerdo The year of issue and the current layout have been taken from "Collect-a-ROM" (CAR), an originally external database that was the starting point of the stamp section.

Edifil and Yvert indeed give 1937 as the (earliest) year of issue, but Michel and Scott both maintain 1936. The choice in CAR/LD is therefore not very strange. Michel and CAR seem to be the only ones separating Isabel from Cid.

If there is a volunteer willing to bring the issue group back into order regarding sequence number and other error details (without relabeling), I am prepared to create the issue group "1937 Cijfers, El Cid en Isabella" behind the scenes.

Incidentally, the aforementioned sheet can be adjusted to the correct perforation and year in any case, as there are no users attached to it, so no one can be defrauded.
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Image of stamp A, printer of stamp B, perforation of stamp C, color that was never issued. What does "without relabeling" mean? The combination never existed, so you will have to adjust something if you don't want the catalog to be a fairytale book.

The mistake, incidentally, is that Fidel Davila signed the order for issue on December 30, 1936. However, the publication in the Boletín Oficial de Estado (BOE), by which the order took effect, did not occur until January 5, 1937. On that day, 5 cms "El Cid" in sepia and 15 cts "Isabel" in red entered circulation.

Ex BOE, Year II, No. 77, dated January 5, 1937, page 35:


See how Cid and Isabel—and I can show you a handful more orders that do this—and even no figures at all are inextricably linked. The figures only appeared between January 5 and July 22, 1937, when another order refers to it and names Cijfers, Cid, and Isabel as a coherent issue.

An order dated December 5, 1936, published on December 9, 1936, awards the contract for printing these stamps, following a tender, to Hija de B. Fournier - Burgos. In 1939, yet another order introduced a replacement series (Franco y Escudo - Sanchez Toda), printed by Hijos de Heraclio Fournier-Vitoria. This is a different printing house and never merged.

A further order resulted in the transfer of assets from other printing houses to FNMT. The latter reprinted the stamp featuring El Cid. This is different both visually and technically. The sheet is therefore from a different stamp, from a different printing house, from a different year. And only 9 years later was the stamp in question reissued once more. The sheet shown is from that issue. It is Mi. 766 IV and not Mi. 766 III.

Updating this series will yield a number of items that are pure fantasy: a combination of characteristics, characteristics and catalog numbers, or characteristics and an image has never existed.

The choice in CAR/LD is therefore not very strange. Michel and CAR seem to be the only ones separating Isabel from Cid.

Not if blindly following other catalogs is the standard. If presenting facts is, then yes.
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What does "without relabeling" mean?
You have a point here. To prevent confusion and discussion in the future, I have removed the existing item "velletje" and re-added it.

Since I do not have the sheet myself, I cannot determine the dimensions. I have not been able to find the print run and have left it blank. What Jummeke meant earlier, I think, is that the print run of a single stamp is often entered for the entire sheet, and that is obviously incorrect.

I also left the Printing Technique field blank for now, because Michel suggests that it is offset printing, whereas I understand from Edifil that it is lithography (the 1940 issue was indeed offset).


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I also left the Printing Technique field blank for now, because Michel suggests that it is offset printing, whereas I understand from Edifil that it is lithography (the 1940 issue was indeed offset).

If I remember correctly—I don't have the catalogue at hand right now—1937 and 1940 are litografía, for which they occasionally use offset, and 1949 fotolitografía, at both FESOFI and Edifil. Now, lithos means stone and litografia originally means stone printing. However, the use of the various names for lithographic printing forms is very variable in most catalogues.

The print run of the stamp was likely an estimate at best. They were always long-running series. However, "long-running" didn't mean much in Spain, because they replaced those kinds of basic series very frequently.
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My base Edifil writes:
1937-1940 (Cifras, Cid e Isabel) lithographs
1938-1939 (Isabel la Catolica) lithographs
1940 (Cifras y Cid) Offset
1949-1953 (Cid y General Franco) lithographs

In any case, Edifil views offset as a different technique from lithography.
I expect that Steendruk is correct here, after all?



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My base Edifil writes:
1937-1940 (Cifras, Cid e Isabel) lithographs
1938-1939 (Isabel la Catolica) lithographs
1940 (Cifras y Cid) Offset
1949-1953 (Cid y General Franco) lithographs

1938 - 1939 is yet another issue with a colored background printed by Hijos de Heraclio Fournier - Vitoria


In any case, Edifil views offset as a different technique from lithography.

No. There are different types of lithography, including offset lithography. The unificado indeed uses "offset." The especialisado, however, calls it litografía. Very sloppy use of printing terms, as is often the case in philately. As far as I can tell, offset is also a broader concept than offset lithography. Edifil, especialisado, edición bronce, tomo III, 1925.



The FESOFI technical sheet calls it litographía.
https://catalogodesellos.fesofi.es/producto/0916/

The 1949 issue uses a slightly different type of lithographic process than that from the 1937–1940 period. Both are lithographs. However, the 1940 issue uses the same process as that of 1937 (and 1938).


I expect that Steendruk is correct here, after all?

Steendruk is the Dutch translation of the word lithography. So yes.
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