Recently, I saw some Labuan stamps on Ebay with re-entries. Looking through my spares, I found these two. In re-entries, one sees extra lines or features due to repairs done to a worn plate used in the printing of the stamps. Most of them seem rather trivial but for these 2 particular stamps they are definitely more striking and obvious.
There are extra lines to the right of the deer's antlers in this picture, more obvious on the lower part.
Here in this part of the stamp, extra lines which are quite prominent extend all the way right to the tip of the deer's antlers. In addition, the lines on the upper outline the deer's ear are also duplicated.
According to the Stamps and Postal History of North Borneo book 2, these re-entries are present on stamps 4, 5, 9 and 75. The pattern seen on this stamp is in keeping with stamp 4.
There are 4 parts to a line which is seen to the right of the sago tree trunk which extends to below the right lower branch of the plant. There are re-entries on stamps 10, 72 and 80. This is either 10 or 80 which are both very similar.
Here, we can see the same re-entries for the overprinted Jubilee issue as well as the 1897 issue using the same printing plates, to save printing cost for the BNB company.
