Errors, freaks, and oddities
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Errors versus errors, freaks and oddities
By Rick Miller
Errors, freaks and oddities: These three words, frequently bandied about in stamp collecting, are nearly as frequently misunderstood.
The error was discovered by several different people soon after the stamp was issued, so it would never have been as scarce as the Jenny, nor as valuable, since it lacks the visual appeal. Still, it might have ended up with a value of $5,000 by now.
Error: Stamp with a mistake in colour, perforations, or design. Also … ‘a major mistake in the production of a stamp or postal stationery item’.
Error: A major mistake in the production of a stamp or postal stationery item. Production errors include imperforate or imperforate-between varieties, missing or incorrect colors, and inversion or doubling of part of the design or overprint.
Error A stamp which has some abnormality about its production or printing. (see Flaws and Varieties)
Essay A design which has been submitted for a stamp issue.
Error
A mistake in the design of a stamp, such as an incorrect spelling or inscription, or a mistake in the printing that results, perhaps, in a stamp with a missing colour or without perforations.
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Error - a major and total production mistake, often defined as a mistake that can be identically repeated.
Error: A mistake in the philatelic material.
Etiquette: A gummed label made for use on envelopes.
Exploded: Separation of various components of stamp booklets.
Error - A major mistake in the production of a stamp or postal stationery item such as imperforates, missing or incorrect colors, and design image errors.
Essay - The artwork of a proposed design for a stamp.
Error
Although frequently misused, the term in its philatelic usage has two specific meanings.
Error
A numismatic item that unintentionally varies from the norm. Overdates and overmintmarks are not considered errors since they were done intentionally. Other die-cutting "mistakes" are considered errors.
Errors. It seems we all like to see foul-ups. We like watching bloopers on TV, and there are some dandy bloopers in stamp collecting. Unfortunately, the big bloopers are rare and cost plenty to buy.
ERRORS - Printing stamps is a complicated process and even though they are checked carefully some of the errors that occur come into circulation. These make the stamps rare. The Colour Missing error is shown.
ERRORS, FREAKS, or ODDITIES includes missing perforations, missing colors, mis-cut, folded or a host of other printing errors. These stamps are supposed to be culled from the final product and destroyed.
Errors
Highly-collectible stamps because of something incorrect in their design or manufacture.
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Error. A stamp bearing a mistake of some sort.
Essay. A proposed design for a stamp which was not accepted in its original form.
Facsimile. A term used to designate reproductions of a stamp design.
Red error: the 5¢ red error in the 1917 plate of the 2¢ carmine value.
Red hand: enclosed on a six-pointed star national symbol of Ulster, on Northern Irish stamps.
Electroplate Errors
Both local and Bureau Print precancels made from electroplates occasionally show errors. The frequency of such errors in a sheet of 100 stamps depends on how the plate was made.
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Offset - Partial or complete impression of a stamp printed in error in the wrong place, e.g. on the gummed side of another stamp or on top of an existing stamp. Usually an offset impression is a mirror image.
The error occurred on the 24-cent airmail stamp of 1918. Only one sheet of one hundred inverted center stamps was sold across the post office counter, and no other examples have been discovered by the public.
Two of the best known rare American stamps are the "Inverted Jenny" (which is actually a printing error) and the "1-cent Z grill" stamp.
Invert: The term generally used to describe any error where one portion of the design is inverted in relation to the other portion(s). An overprint applied upside down is also an invert.
Double Printed: A stamp color that is printed twice by error. The double print is visible by the out of registration of the colors. The same is applicable for a double surcharge.
The Inverted Jenny is a famous error; philatelic study explains exactly how it happened.
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This also might include collecting stamps in which something went wrong in production: errors, freaks, and oddities.
Imperforate: Refers to stamps without perforations or rouletting between the individual stamps in a pane. The earliest stamps were imperforate, but after about 1860, most stamps were perforated. Modern imperforates are usually errors or are produced ...
These collectors will know the names of all the local Postmasters from the past (and the present day Post Shop managers), when the post offices changed their date stamps, made certain deliveries, used stamps in error, ...
 See also: Stamp, Used, Cover, Catalog, Printing
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