South Africa printing debris flaw
As I was taking apart the South Africa bundleware that I mentioned earlier, and sorting through the stamps to remove the damaged ones, I found this interesting printing flaw on the 4c Emily Hobhouse stamp of 1976.There is a place where the ink did not adhere due to some sort of debris. I have circled the flaw and put some normal stamps for comparison.
According to Gibbons this stamp was printed by lithography. Since the debris was moving around, and interfered with all ink colors, I believe it would have to have been on the blanket, which means this flaw could possibly have been on several plates of this stamp. Anyone else out there have multiples of this stamp? If so, have you noticed any similar flaws--remember, it would be moving around, so could be anywhere on the stamp. Please let me know if you have seen anything like this on the same stamp. Thanks.
Suzi
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posted by suzi @ 6:13 PM
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At 3:25 AM,
Unknown said…
There was an article in Scott's monthly this month about the Edna Ferbe "big mouth" freak. Good eye you have. Have you thought of trying to sell them on ebay to see what you could get? I'm not sure what freaks go for, not near what errors do, that's for sure. You could always luck out and find two freak people who get into a bidding war!!!!
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