Bluish Paper - paper with 35% rag content (instead of all wood pulp) and a blue mineral colorant used to print certain postage stamps issued in 1909. The resulting stamp papers have a pale bluish color. Examples: Scott 357-366.
Papper, Blåaktig: (Swed.) bluish paper.
Papper, Efterglättat: (Swed.) re-calendered paper.
Papper, Färgat: (Swed.) colored paper.
Papper, Fluorescerande: (Swed.) fluorescent paper.
It looks like Scott 359, the bluish paper variety, which catalogs $1,800! Its centering is excellent for that stamp.
Figure 2. This Mauritius 2-penny gray-blue on bluish paper Queen Victoria stamp bears a true target cancel.
Figure 3. A Baden 6-kreuzer Prussian blue stamp, Scott 22a, with a "109" concentric-ring killer cancel.
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Such paper, whether dried over a fabric screen or close wire screen, is known as "wove" paper and is the most commonly used for stamps today. Some of this wove paper is tinted during manufacture and is described as thin bluish paper, blue paper, ...
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