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Post by WERT on Feb 23, 2020 19:52:41 GMT
There are lots of these so called oddities on stamps that if you look really hard, don't make sense. Here i an example on a Canada Scott 438 stamp.
Regular Scott 438
But if you look really hard, there is an oddity on the ships wheel..ONE wood wheel spinal is missing. Compare with the stamp above.  |
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Post by WERT on Feb 23, 2020 20:58:21 GMT
Here is another mistake on a stamp. Canada Scott 490 curling stamp..Center circle two big..See pictures below.
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Post by WERT on Feb 23, 2020 21:01:33 GMT
Another Canada stamp mistake. Scott CE2 plane stamp. ONE: Right side of plane has NO windows. TWO: Plane air flow behind factory smoke stack.
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Post by WERT on Feb 23, 2020 23:16:57 GMT
Here is a Scott 367...anyone who has ever fired a rife will see this is wrong. He is firing right handed...BUT, has his right eye closed... if you are firing right handed, you aim with your right eye.
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Post by WERT on Feb 23, 2020 23:20:40 GMT
Scott 352 Ahhhhh...it says cents4..Should be 4cents
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Post by WERT on Feb 23, 2020 23:23:30 GMT
Scott 272 Man on left is just falling a tree and moving out of the way, but did not tell his poor friend on the right..Shame on him.
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Post by WERT on Feb 23, 2020 23:24:57 GMT
Scott 442 Looks like the building are out on the water.
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Post by WERT on Feb 23, 2020 23:26:58 GMT
Last one for now..Don't want to bore people. Scott 275 Missing 2 middle fingers...?
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Post by kasvik on Feb 24, 2020 14:08:39 GMT
Last one for now..Don't want to bore people. Scott 275 Missing 2 middle fingers...? Robert
This one has often caught my eye. The hand gesture can be done, but it is unnatural, like a pre-Star Trek 'Live long and prosper'. Could it have had a particular meaning in the promotion of the 1946 Canadian Citizenship Act? Here is the artist drawing, with the same gesture as a clumsy effort to capture the C in Canada, from a blog post. The model wears a work shirt but nice trousers; pleated, cuff with full break. Go figure.
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Post by WERT on Feb 24, 2020 14:26:00 GMT
kasvik...Interesting theory...Yes, could be a gesture lost over time....The proof does show what looks like capturing the "C" of Canada. The actual stamp falls short of touching the "C"...The gesture may have been their, but lost over time.
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Post by WERT on Feb 24, 2020 14:35:56 GMT
Here is a mistake that was done on purpose. This Scott 62 Cabot stamp has a picture/drawing of Joh Cabot...BUT there was NO drawing of Cabot..They used his son's drawing because of the close resemblance.
Interesting conception of Cabot. Robert
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Post by JeffS on Feb 24, 2020 16:53:33 GMT
@wert How about the Newfie seal with claws?
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Post by WERT on Feb 24, 2020 18:13:53 GMT
And the codfish with a split tail. Robert
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Post by WERT on Feb 24, 2020 18:39:18 GMT
Jeffs said claws..Correct.
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Post by WERT on Feb 24, 2020 18:40:34 GMT
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Post by WERT on Feb 27, 2020 15:08:51 GMT
Here is a Scott 209.
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Look at the hand of the little girl holding a watermelon..3 fingers and White....weird.
Look at the bow the Indian is holding...Bow at the top is out front and the bow on the bottom is behind his leg...Wouldn't that be painful with the string against his side..Just saying
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Post by renden on Feb 27, 2020 16:21:53 GMT
WERTtook a break from Yougoslavia to look at my Mint copy of Unitrade/Scott # 209 and noticed your findings so these would be constant and not a variety by itself - in other words the designer made mistakes ! René
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Post by brightonpete on Feb 27, 2020 16:26:00 GMT
Yes, I agree with René - artistic license, much like cartoon hands with only 4 fingers. Besides, that bow looks to me like it is slanted backwards a bit. Looks normal to me.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 15, 2020 15:06:43 GMT
I've been meaning to post these stamps in this thread ever since it came out. Part of the first series issued by the Bailiwick of Guernsey in 1969 were the two map stamps at 1p and 1'6. But the latitude on the map is wrong! It reads 40 o30'N instead of 49 o30'N. Two corrected stamps were r e-issued a year later, of which I only have the higher denomination, and the cancellation hides the correction somewhat.
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Post by Jerry B on Apr 15, 2020 16:32:16 GMT
Hi guys I know that this is an old thread. But I had to say something. When I was in the military, the DI was amazed. I can close my right eye and keep the left open, but not vice-versa. On the firing range I fired the rifle right handed but aimed with my left eye. So, to me there is not a problem with the image  It was awkward to say the least, but it worked. Jerry B |
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Post by kasvik on Apr 15, 2020 18:18:20 GMT
Hi guys I know that this is an old thread. But I had to say something. When I was in the military, the DI was amazed. I can close my right eye and keep the left open, but not vice-versa. On the firing range I fired the rifle right handed but aimed with my left eye. So, to me there is not a problem with the image It was awkward to say the least, but it worked. Jerry B
No shortage of shooting theme stamps, especially from the Swiss (all those Wilhelm Tell's son, for a start).
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Post by Jerry B on Apr 16, 2020 8:21:17 GMT
Hi kasvik Believe it or not I did qualify  Jerry B |
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It was awkward to say the least, but it worked.