South Arabian Federation: Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut

These are the three values of the 1966 President Kennedy Commemorative issue; SG68 - 70 (can't find Scott #'s at the moment). Although I already had the set as singles, I noticed something odd about these blocks in a dealer's stock: 






On closer examination, I could see a printing error on the overprint on all three values in the same position. This affected the letter J in John. The slug used is taller with both left and right hand hooks; the one on the 35 cent is slightly incomplete (damaged?):




I've modified the colour on the 70 cents close-up above, to better show the error.

EDIT: Forgot to add a normal close-up for comparison:

Below is a cropped close-up of the error, with a normal close-up on the right:



I have no idea if these have been listed anywhere (certainly not in the copies of Gibbons, Scotts or the now defunct Minkus) that I have looked at.

Nothing in Michel neither.

But nice little observation / discovery

-k-

Thank you for trying to find them. It would appear that Scott is partly in accordance with SG regarding listing policy; just differing in the time period:


The inverted overprint shown in perfs12 opening post (SG66a), is actually the from same overprint series, just differing in the name of the statesman.

Rotate the "J" of the original overprint 180 degrees to the left (counterclockwise) and it should appear normal. Likely a mistake made by someone unfamiliar with the English alphabet.

From Michel 2014 Middle East - CV's in Euros



Black imprints are considerably more.
A similar set for Winston Churchill precedes these.

Here are the Winston Churchill black overprints:





And here are the JFK black overprints:





It has been documented that the black overprints were trials.

Hi all,

So I have a stamp from this state, which has an interesting note in the SG Commonwealth catalog (see the snip below)... Does this mean it's essentially a cinderella?