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This is a souvenir sheet from my gymnastics
collection, quite common, except that the yellow color is missing. The
background is supposed to be GREEN. Is this a legitimate color-missing
error (I've seen others from this era), a color changeling, or some other fraud?
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My guess would be missing yellow due to a colour fade.
Was this item kept in a shop window? Many colours do fade in sunlight and
printers' yellow was particularly bad. (When I was younger the corner shop
got a 10' x 1' advertising banner for apples and put it in the window.
Within a year the apples shown were in a rather unappetizing mauve or pale
blue colours!) [Dave Joll]
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The souvenir sheet was purchased many
years ago from the New York dealer Martin Band, whose pricelists included
many missing-color varieties of this era USSR, which I have never seen
advertized elsewhere. If it were color-faded, I would have expected the
red have faded as well. [Rick Scott]
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I have found out lately that several of these souvenir sheets of USSR have a smaller printing
with a different background. Most are not mentioned in Scott catalog. [Tricia Richmond]
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