Posted 12/17/2016 5:32 pm
Very difficult to tell from the fuzzy pics. The first pic is probably a blind queen, the second pic is borderline and the third pic is probably not.
To qualify as a blind queen there should be no trace of the eyeball or lashes. And just to make life difficult with the naked eye it can look normal but under magnification you should clearly see there is no eyeball or lashes. When a pic is taken, often the missing eyeball shows up. All part of the fun of collecting varieties. Seems to have been a lot of repair work to the dies of the 60's period around this area with veiled queens,blind queens,double noses, deformed noses, double faces.
To qualify as a blind queen there should be no trace of the eyeball or lashes. And just to make life difficult with the naked eye it can look normal but under magnification you should clearly see there is no eyeball or lashes. When a pic is taken, often the missing eyeball shows up. All part of the fun of collecting varieties. Seems to have been a lot of repair work to the dies of the 60's period around this area with veiled queens,blind queens,double noses, deformed noses, double faces.
