Description:
The stamp is scuffed at bottom right.
Gold omitted is not recorded on the 9d value. With BPA certificate stating 'Not possible to certify that the absence of the Gold (Queen's head) is the consequence of an omission in the printing'.
Embossing and phosphor seem undisturbed, as far as it is possible to tell on a used stamp. We have compared this stamp side by side with the 1968 Christmas gold omitted 4d 'Bromley' cover and in our opinion the soiling around the embossed head is very similar between the two stamps.
We acquired this stamp several years ago in a GB collection which included errors. It was annotated as Missing Gold, but we didn't pay any real attention to a used unrecorded 'Missing Gold', put it to one side and forgot about it. We came across it again some time later, had a closer look and realised that we could see nothing wrong with it, and that the marks around the embossed head were soiling rather than traces of gold. We sent it to an error expert for examination who was unable to detect signs of tampering. We submitted it for a certificate (see scans), and without a full certificate put it to one side and forgot about it again.
In our opinion the stamp is probably correct, but we suspect that the chances of getting a clear certificate on an unrecorded used missing colour seem slim.
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