Here’s another item from EFO (”Error-Freak-Oddity”) collection that I’ve been lately building alongside my worldwide stamps collection. It’s 1961 Congo (Kinshasa/Zaire) 20c (mint) stamp with heavily shifted overprint.
Published on March 1st 2010 | Read more.... | No Comments »
There are plenty of interesting Vietnamese stamps, but one of my personal favorites is this striking doubled frame print error on CTO-used stamp commemorating the birth of Raphael.
Published on February 8th 2010 | Read more.... | No Comments »
It’s been a long time since I showed some of the EFO’s, but I think they will match perfectly with my current writings about stamp quality. Here’s something I picked up last night from kiloware I had soaked few days earlier.
Published on February 5th 2010 | Read more.... | 1 Comment »
Not all stamps are born equal. There can be lots of minor quality flux that fits into printers guidelines of acceptable variation and printing conditions. In addition there are all sorts of errors, freaks and oddities (like printers waste) that ends up one way or to another to stamp collectors albums.
Published on January 29th 2010 | Read more.... | 4 Comments »
During the Christmas season and New Year I did have a blast with German definitive stamps. Very likely one of the most notorious of these is the Five-year-plan (“5-J-Pl.”) issues of German Democratic Republic (more commonly know as East Germany or DDR) which shows “the common men and woman at work”. Despite of rather short lifespan it is without a doubt one of the most dreaded and complex definitive stamp series ever. The first issue came out in August 1953, the last seventh issue in 1959; and the stamps became invalid in 1962.
Published on January 2nd 2010 | Read more.... | 6 Comments »
And to finalize this week’s “freakshow”, here’s a 1973 Hungarian 3 forint definitive postage stamp with dark green color omitted. The most noticeable difference is when looking at the trees on the hills, but it does affect other areas too.
Published on October 7th 2009 | Read more.... | No Comments »
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