For the past couple of months, I have been receiving reports about two different gum colors on the Sport for Peace, Beijing Olympics 2008 United Nations personalized sheet. As can be seen from these cut pieces of selvage, it is more than the gum that is different, the printed colors on the front of the sheet are also very different! In the scan shown above, the blue-green gum version is on the left and the cream gum version is on the right. UNP has decided to assign S25.1 to the blue-green gum version. It is unknown if one printing is more scarce than the other version, or if one version was printed before another version. But if you enjoy varieties, seek out both versions for your collection! Below is the scan of the gum side for the same two pieces of selvage.
I want to thank Dieter Wolke for the earliest report of the two gum colors and Helmut Jörg for supplying the selvage samples.
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These sheets are made at the UN on color laser printers. The actual paper are bought by the UN blank with the gum applied and the perfs. Then the UN prints them to their needs. They have bought these from different suppliers and in some cases the different groups have been used on both the same printing. Theyn do not keep track of which gum is used when they print only the total sheets made. The color difference may have come from different days when they were printing or used a different blue when they ran out of this color in the press.
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