This is really unexpected. There must be several hundred John Fox Special labels filling up drawers, envelopes and shoe boxes in collectors houses all over the world. I am not going to argue that there is a different die in existence to enable a print of an arctic fox as well as the quick brown variety, but I am going to be searching for the Arctic fox version from now on. Thanks to Nick for spotting and sending the images,.
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25 May, 2020
at 9:01 am
A nice thought, but if you look carefully at the ‘Arctic’ fox, you will see faint brown colouration. So I reckon they had just run out of brown ink & this one was missed by QC if that was even a thing back then. Probably others out thete in the tundra.