When You Know You've Been Looking At Too Many Stamps...

I must have been tired last night.

I went through a group of used blocks of stamps and came across this one. Notice in particular the lower left stamp. It was late and I glanced at this stamp which looked as if Teddy Roosevelt's eye was open wider than the others.



At first I thought it might be a small pinhole tear in the stamp, but it wasn't. Since it looked a bit haunting, I scanned it and blew up the eye only to find out it was the comma printed on the cancel between the city and state name.



I've heard of socked on the nose cancels, but never a socked on the eye one!

I'd venture to guess that there are few such cancels around where the post office could have so perfectly placed a cancel that it hit a President right in the eye! (They probably couldn't have done it again if they tried.)

Good wt1

Now we can look for SOE cancels lol

Chimo

Bujutsu

Superb wt1 !

What a great thread this could turn out to be. The block is lovely, a real eye-opener !

The cue for everyone to go off and search for something similar in their collections.

And a thread title for everyone.

Loved it

Londonbus1....eye might see you later, off to look for a funny

Nice one wt1! That is scary. It reminds me of those old paintings where the painted image always looked at you and the eyes followed you no matter where you were in the room. You look over your shoulder to see if the painting is still watching you, and it is!

You've been to the Louvre I see !

Londonbus1.....Paris also has a Stamp Market

No, I haven't. I wish I had. Just a small gallery in Dublin is my only art experience.

My brother has an old oval-shaped large photograph of a WWI soldier that is on a buldged-out surface so it is convex and the eyes follow you. I don't like to stay in the room with it even though it is an ancestor and family. Shivers!

....when you know your eyesight is failing....

rod222