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January 18, 2012 21:37

I was just looking at the picture of lot 1 from the last auction was no better than the image currently in the relevant catalog item . That indeed turns out to be the case. I don't know if the seller and buyer would object if that image were used to enhance the catalog.

However ...

A more accurate comparison shows that the auctioned book is not at all identical to the first edition as it appears in the catalog.

Compare the backs, and especially the bottom titles. (Other details are also different.) Can someone explain the difference?

PS Comparison with a larger image of a copy for sale makes the differences more visible. All three copies with their own photos in shops do correspond with the back as it is in the catalog.

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January 18, 2012 22:09

Where exactly are the differences, Peter? Even if you only give one concrete ...

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January 18, 2012 22:12

The bottom Pike title (Snoek crow victorie) is almost against the white frame in the auctioned book, while it is far from it in the catalog copy. The whole series of Pike titles is also aligned at a different angle.

Furthermore, there is no colon behind the text "already signed for you the following albums".
There is also no blank line between the second and third line in the box on the right.

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January 18, 2012 22:28

I fear the printing process is responsible for this. The red cover color was first applied before the black text was stamped. The first albums compared to the last albums of the band can probably differ due to the fact that the printing plates have been moved a bit.

I think ...

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January 18, 2012 22:35

I fear the printing process is responsible for this.

Could be, but it is extremely different (space between Full Color and The Spanish Ghost). The page numbers (39) have also shifted from my copy. Can be a variant.

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January 18, 2012 22:48

It really can't be printing, in my opinion.

I'll stick to a variant that belongs between variants a and b.

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January 18, 2012 22:55

Shifting the black ink plates seems unlikely to me because the shift does not take place 1 on 1

the catalog copy aligns at the top with black on the right and at the bottom on the left

with the lot copy top in the middle and bottom right.

If black is printed later I can assume all at once and not line by line

but I am not a graphic artist / printer.

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The black print run of the back is probably composed of separate letterpress printing blocks for the illustrations and the drawn names, and separate lines of lead type for the titles (made for example on a Linotype typesetting machine ). Once it has been properly screwed in, such a printing forme does not deviate a fraction of a millimeter during printing.

You can see that the red and black on the auctioned album are not printed properly ("in register"), but that is irrelevant here.

The only explanation for the differences is that the brew was taken off after printing (as usual) and that the back was reassembled for a new edition. With small differences, because it was simply manual work.

So it must be a different edition, although of course you cannot determine what the first and what the second edition was.

What would the book have yielded if the seller had added it: "unknown variant"?

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January 18, 2012 23:33

The typesetting on the front is also not quite the same:

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I think making a printing plate myself used to be manual work.

This results in a small displacement of the 1st text to the right on the front cover at the bottom center and the 2nd text to the left on the front cover at the bottom center.

It is also possible that the printing plate is not properly placed in the printing machine where you also get a text displacement on the front cover at the bottom center.

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January 24, 2012 14:04

And what do we do now with this variant? Do you need permission from the seller or buyer to include them in the catalog, or do images from the auction automatically fall under Catawiki's right of use?

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January 24, 2012 15:15

Those images may be used. Sellers have also accepted our general terms and conditions, which state that this is allowed. Apart from that, I don't think a seller objects to that either.

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March 23, 2012 01:16

Also in this Wednesday's auction is another album that differs very slightly from the copy in the catalogue. (Most albums that are offered by shops - with their own photo - are also different versions.)

Two backs for comparison. For the catalog item, I borrowed a shop's image because it's too small and blurry in the catalog. I've added guides to make the differences (which are even more subtle this time) clear.

Catalog item 27059 :

Auction lot 116 :

In particular, the positioning of the first line of text under De Familie Snoek differs by a few millimeters (beginning or middle of the A). It is not an accidental shift in printing, because then all the black would have shifted and the white and black of the illustration would no longer match.

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