firstfrog2013
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Apr 6, 2016 15:27:44 GMT
I thought I'd share this little oddity.As I said I'm going through about 300 Mounties Canada Scott #223.This is the strangest one I found.If you notice the box to the right of cents there are a series of vertical lines evenly spaced.The top is what is normally seen.Now look at the bottom...Where did that other slash go? How did that happen?  |
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reena
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Post by reena on Apr 11, 2016 11:52:17 GMT
I found this little fold printing error from Sweden:
[Moderator Note: image link of stamp's front was broken and not recoverable]
the back:  the full back: 
When I was cataloging this stamp I felt the difference and thought I could straighten out the fold. I stopped very fast when I realized what was really going on. Fun to find these things in our collections.
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ajkitt
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Post by ajkitt on Oct 3, 2018 21:45:50 GMT
I'm not sure what this is, but it came with a bunch of German stamps. It's hard to read with the double imprint, but the letters at the bottom look Cyrillic.  |
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Post by feebletodix on Oct 4, 2018 14:37:53 GMT
Hi ajkitt
It looks like the 1949 West Berlin issue 10pf Kolonnaden am Kleistpark Schoneberg
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Post by ajkitt on Oct 5, 2018 14:48:22 GMT
Hi ajkitt It looks like the 1949 West Berlin issue 10pf Kolonnaden am Kleistpark Schoneberg Any idea where I would find that in a Scott catalog? I don't see anything like it under Germany, Berlin, Occupation or DDR, or did I miss it?
Thanks, Andy
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 15:54:22 GMT
Any idea where I would find that in a Scott catalog? I don't see anything like it under Germany, Berlin, Occupation or DDR, or did I miss it? Look under German Occupation Stamps #9N47 to see if it matches However, double strikes are not common. |
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Post by feebletodix on Oct 5, 2018 17:36:04 GMT
It also has no perforations, is it gummed?
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Post by ajkitt on Oct 5, 2018 21:57:58 GMT
It also has no perforations, is it gummed? full gum, no hinge. It doesn't seem to be the occupation stamp y'all referenced. I had to search Colnect to find an image, and although there definitely seems to be a similarity in the buildings, that one has a block script 'Deutsche Post' at the bottom that this thing doesn't have. :-( whatever that scrollwork says, there's a ' |-o ' kind of symbol in there, which looks Cyrillic to me. Greek? Russian, or any of the other dozen Slavic countries? I'm fishing here... .
Thanks, Andy
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Post by feebletodix on Oct 6, 2018 6:17:46 GMT
ajkitt, I am wrong, this is irritating because I have one somwhere.
(added) Stampworld.com has an advanced search function which you could try.
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Post by ajkitt on Oct 6, 2018 13:22:07 GMT
ajkitt, I am wrong, this is irritating because I have one somwhere. (added) Stampworld.com has an advanced search function which you could try. LOL
That's funny, because I'd swear I've seen it too. But its that whole weird alphabet problem for me - I don't even know how to begin searching for it! I think I'll try to up the contrast of the image and send a copy to my mother or something - her parents were both born in Ukraine and she definitely knows that language. Even if she can't read it, maybe she can see enough to tell me which country it is.
Thanks, Andy
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stevew
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Post by stevew on Oct 8, 2018 12:59:08 GMT
US Postal Card Sc UX46a/UPSS S63a (Aug 1 1958). Missing 'I' error. Closeup of intact card.  |
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Post by stevew on Oct 9, 2018 13:33:14 GMT
Sc UX33/UPSS S45-29g (die 2, New York) April 1920, double surcharge, lower left inverted. Closeup of intact card.  |
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Post by ajkitt on Oct 9, 2018 14:32:01 GMT
Sc UX33/UPSS S45-29g (die 2, New York) April 1920, double surcharge, lower left inverted. Closeup of intact card. I think this one is kind of funny. Clearly, they had to run it through the printer twice, right? Did the man at the machine think the second pass would erase the first? :-) |
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Post by stevew on Oct 9, 2018 15:00:08 GMT
Sc UX33/UPSS S45-29g (die 2, New York) April 1920, double surcharge, lower left inverted. Closeup of intact card. I think this one is kind of funny. Clearly, they had to run it through the printer twice, right? Did the man at the machine think the second pass would erase the first? :-) I wondered the same thing! You'd think it'd have to have been almost intentional, or at best, very inatentive. And apparently, this specific error is not uncommon. |
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 9, 2018 17:54:16 GMT
I think this one is kind of funny. Clearly, they had to run it through the printer twice, right? Did the man at the machine think the second pass would erase the first? :-) I wondered the same thing! You'd think it'd have to have been almost intentional, or at best, very inatentive. And apparently, this specific error is not uncommon. was thinking that perhaps the end of the graveyard shift accidentally placed the sheet of postcards in the overprinting press upside down. Day shift comes in & decides to right the wrong. In it goes for the correct positioning. I know all about that, having worked in a job where the office was open 365/24/7! |
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Post by ajkitt on Oct 9, 2018 18:47:53 GMT
I wondered the same thing! You'd think it'd have to have been almost intentional, or at best, very inatentive. And apparently, this specific error is not uncommon. was thinking that perhaps the end of the graveyard shift accidentally placed the sheet of postcards in the overprinting press upside down. Day shift comes in & decides to right the wrong. In it goes for the correct positioning. I know all about that, having worked in a job where the office was open 365/24/7! I dunno… It's still weird. Either way, at least one machine operator screwed up, QC missed it, and here we are. If first shift tried to right the wrong, are they the ones who thought a second pass would erase the first? ;-)
Blame everything on 3rd shift. Everyone else does! :-)
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 20:07:50 GMT
I'm going to indulge and post a few of the errors I have in my collection. Here is the French Census issue (Michel #2324), and #2324I is the error, with the green "7" in Corsica missing.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 20:17:52 GMT
The "18 June appeal" from General de Gaulle in 1940 in London. A text that stirs the heart of all Frenchmen, even today. The stamp came out in 1964, for the 20th anniversary of the Liberation of France. YT#1411 (right) and 1411e (left), with the right flag red field offset.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 20:31:13 GMT
French "warm springs therapy" (thermalisme) issue. Michel #2691 (blue value) and #2691F (red value), issued in 1988. My grandmother actually got the error when she bought the stamp for me at the post office (not knowing it was the error), as she did regularly for me back then. I only discovered it decades later!  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 20:42:26 GMT
Cameroon issue from 1985, YT#759-60, commemorating the visit of then French President Francois Mitterrand. The original issuing of the stamp had a misspelling of his name with only one "R", which was quickly corrected.  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 20:55:22 GMT
A French issue for the 1999 Rugby World Cup (Michel #3421 and #3421I). The bottom stamp has the name of the printer written as ITV instead of ITVF.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 21:24:43 GMT
The Europa 1960 issue from France (Michel #1319, and #1319I where the center of the rosace is the same colour as the rest).  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 21:29:22 GMT
Congo issue from 1960, showing their first president Fulbert Youlou. The third issue after independence. The darker stamps (YT #136A-B) were pulled out because the President felt the portrait looked like a funeral mask! The green background (YT#137-38) was much preferred.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 21:44:22 GMT
Baden (French Occupation Zone) Block 1B. This is the " 3-point variety". The accompanying card shows where those 3 points are.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 9, 2018 22:01:53 GMT
Wuerttemberg Michel #274I, on the card. The normal issue, for comparison, is to the right. Note the "satellite dish" on one of the roofs.  |
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 10, 2018 0:18:12 GMT
Wuerttemberg #274I, on the card. The normal issue, for comparison, is to the right. Note the "satellite dish" on one of the roofs. Is that dish the tiny mark just above the horizon on the right? Amazing, they were way ahead of North America when it came to communications! |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 10, 2018 4:38:09 GMT
Wuerttemberg #274I, on the card. The normal issue, for comparison, is to the right. Note the "satellite dish" on one of the roofs. Is that dish the tiny mark just above the horizon on the right? Amazing, they were way ahead of North America when it came to communications! No, the "dish" is on the roof directly above the "F" of "PFG". |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 10, 2018 5:38:32 GMT
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Post by Londonbus1 on Oct 10, 2018 6:36:10 GMT
Nice errors hrdoktorx !! I love the Wuerttemberg one especially. Here's a couple of listed oddities I found in the CW collection. A bit tatty but still nice to look at. Once again my apologies for the colours on some which are NOT on the stamps. I may have shown these elsewhere but they fit here too.  Two types of Ceylon QV Inverted Overprints.  More QV Ceylon, this time the 'Two' surcharge type, one normal and the other with surcharge double, one Inverted ! (The small tear is a pity).  |
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Post by stevew on Oct 10, 2018 14:24:39 GMT
Sc UX39/UPSS S56-1 Jefferson 1 cent with 2 cent surcharge 1952 As it's supposed to look  Sc UX39a/UPSS S56-? Vertical surcharge to right of stamp  SC UX39?/UPSS S56-1f Inverted surcharge, lower left  |
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