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Post by brightonpete on Apr 30, 2021 2:08:37 GMT
Here is another oddity. Scott 442 "Canada Stamp" Looks like the factory is out on the lake and not land...Srange Robert |
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Post by WERT on Apr 30, 2021 2:34:08 GMT
Good one brighonpete...BAD flooding...haha
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Oh btw the clouds in front of the pole..I have climbed at least 3000-4000 telephone poles and never saw a cloud below me...hahaha
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Post by WERT on Apr 30, 2021 2:40:29 GMT
Here is an oddity...number "1" is backwards on this C2 sir stamp
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Post by WERT on Apr 30, 2021 2:44:01 GMT
Canada CE1 "Special Delivery" stamp. 1 - Plane stream id behind the smoke stack. 2 - No windows on right side of the plane...weird
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Post by WERT on Apr 30, 2021 2:47:16 GMT
Last one..Won't bug you for a while. This Scott 362 Canada Stamp that as far as i know has the CENT sign before the actual "4" cent...odd Robert
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Post by smauggie on Apr 30, 2021 2:57:05 GMT
The more I look at that Musk Ox stamp the weirder it seems, but not the cents location so much as it looks like a musk ox head mounted on a wall.
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Post by WERT on Apr 30, 2021 13:42:48 GMT
Here is a error that was known but placed on the 1897 "John Cabot" Scott 62 stamp on purpose. There was NO painting/drawing of John Cabot, so Canada Post allowed the stamp to be printed with Sebastian Cabot, John Cabot's SON.
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Apr 30, 2021 15:10:38 GMT
Here is a error that was known but placed on the 1897 "John Cabot" Scott 62 stamp on purpose. There was NO painting/drawing of John Cabot, so Canada Post allowed the stamp to be printed with Sebastian Cabot, John Cabot's SON.
Robert That's not him? Blow me over! This is worse than the modest lie of America's 1898 Cattle in a Storm. Royal Mail Canada's hoary dignity--and dozens of casual repetitions--had me completely confusedly convinced and complicit. To their misleading credit, the miscreants finessed the deception by omitting a first name. I guess that kept 'em out of court.
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Post by WERT on Apr 30, 2021 16:37:14 GMT
Kasvik..Could you explain deeper... """This is worse than the modest lie""" Robert
he inscription on the 2 C. denomination stamp above is actually true. It shows a portrait of "CABOT", but not of "John Cabot". The portrait shown on the stamp is actually from a painting of his son, Sebastian Cabot (1477-1557), by Hans Holbein the Younger (1498-1543).
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Post by WERT on Apr 30, 2021 21:46:58 GMT
Here is my Scott 925.. Robert
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Post by vikingeck on May 2, 2021 16:56:14 GMT
A few overprinting errors  Ecuador 1920 Quito - Esmeraldas Railway opening, train Inverted |
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Post by vikingeck on May 2, 2021 17:00:13 GMT
Nicaragua any old overprint arrangement will do ! once , Twice and upsides down  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 17, 2021 20:09:32 GMT
I am no longer subscribing to the new UN issues, but still being a sucker for gimmicky issues, I ordered their latest "crypto-stamps" anyhow:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 25, 2021 21:10:31 GMT
Among the stamps from the Arab Emirates giveaway of renden were these two stamps from Fujeira, part of a series on scouts on the one hand and animals on the other. Strangely enough, the animal's name is given in French, and in these two cases, mislabeled one for the other:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 16, 2021 19:47:53 GMT
A new order arrived today. The first piece I opened was this Spanish stamp made of wood, and on the topic of trees, obviously:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jul 19, 2021 17:48:52 GMT
Among my auction wins this month, this 1951 Danish issue for the centennial of physicist Hans Christian Oersted, with an extra mark in the S of KGL. POST:  |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jul 19, 2021 21:11:22 GMT
There was NO painting/drawing of John Cabot, so Canada Post allowed the stamp to be printed with Sebastian Cabot, John Cabot's SON. That's not him? Blow me over! This is worse than the modest lie of America's 1898 Cattle in a Storm. Hey, Aaron! I am just catching up on some threads today, and I noticed that Robert ( WERT) tried to tag you back in late April for a response about your comment highlighted in the quote above. Are you willing to elaborate on this?  |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 19, 2021 21:14:32 GMT
I think I can answer that one, the 1898 US classic “Western cattle in a Storm” is a lie !
The engraving is a straight copy of a painting of Scottish cattle ………..5000- 6000 miles away from the US mid west.
Painted in 1878 by Scottish artist John MacWhirter it is titled “the Vanguard” and was actually used for advertising without the permission of the painting’s owner Lord Blythswood.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jul 19, 2021 21:27:32 GMT
Good one, Alex ( vikingeck), thanks for that. I had not heard this story before, so thanks for sharing. Robert ( WERT), I hope you spotted Alex's answer to your original question to Aaron ( kasvik). |
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 19, 2021 22:22:51 GMT
/Mac-Whirter-The-Vanguard.  /  |
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Post by WERT on Jul 20, 2021 1:08:34 GMT
He is an oddity if you look hard at this Scott 272 Canada stamp. Here are 2 guys cutting down trees in a forest. The guy on the left has just fell a huge tree and is running away from it.
Now why would he not yell at his buddy to beware..For his safety. Know what i mean.. 
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Jul 20, 2021 2:38:45 GMT
I think I can answer that one, the 1898 US classic “Western cattle in a Storm” is a lie ! The engraving is a straight copy of a painting of Scottish cattle ………..5000- 6000 miles away from the US mid west. Painted in 1878 by Scottish artist John MacWhirter it is titled “the Vanguard” and was actually used for advertising without the permission of the painting’s owner Lord Blythswood.
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Post by WERT on Jul 20, 2021 12:31:28 GMT
Here is another oddity. This is a Scott 1011 "Jacques Cartier" stamp that the designer left the "i" off the small case lettering. Robert
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Post by WERT on Jul 20, 2021 12:41:06 GMT
Here is a oddity that is NOT a variety, but does happen. Here are a Scott 498 and 140 that has an ink splatter. You can identify them after the ink dries, that causes a ring around the outer surface. Robert
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Post by WERT on Jul 20, 2021 13:04:24 GMT
Here is an oddity that could also be a variety... Dot on building on this Scott 1034 stamp.
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Post by renden on Jul 20, 2021 13:50:04 GMT
Here is another oddity. This is a Scott 1011 "Jacques Cartier" stamp that the designer left the "i" off the small case lettering. Robert
This shows the joint issue with FRANCE # 1923 - no oddity on the France "i" !!   |
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Post by renden on Jul 20, 2021 14:04:10 GMT
Here is an oddity that could also be a variety... Dot on building on this Scott 1034 stamp.
Robert
6 specimens I have do not show this oddity, Robert René |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 28, 2021 18:50:40 GMT
I received this freak yesterday as a gift from an ebay seller -- a misperforated pair of a 23 cent presorted first class, perf. 10, vertical coil stamp (Scott 2607; Oct 9, 1992).  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 5, 2021 17:59:46 GMT
A new arrival, this Swiss stamp made from wood:  |
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Post by vikingeck on Oct 5, 2021 18:18:01 GMT
A new arrival, this Swiss stamp made from wood: Definitely a chip off the old block,😀 |
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