1943-1944 Overrun Countries Sheets.

Could some of the gurus here help me with a little question about these stamps. I'm having a trouble with the reverse printing of these stamps for example black over blue or vise versa. It's hard for me to really tell. Are there any other way of telling if it is an error or reverse printing. I mean like the rope on the poles or black lines or the waves. The Korea error is too easy but some of the others are really hard to follow. There has to be secrets somewhere and if anyone knows; it's the gurus here at SCF. Man I love this place! Simply the best!!
Thanks everyone

I too picked up a set of these (no KORPA though) and wish there was a way to have them displayed with the name blocks and FDCs. Oh well, the sheet album will have to do.

I also have the full set of overrun sheets (including the Korpa sheet). Haven't looked at them for years. Just went back to look at the Czechoslovakia sheet carefully, and discovered that the "dot" over the K appears in multiple stamps scattered randomly throughout the sheet (and the position of the "dot" itself varies slightly from stamp to stamp). I have some doubt whether this can be genuinely classified as an "error". It seems more like a small printing imperfection.

To my surprise, I discovered that there is ONE stamp (the third stamp down on the last column) in this sheet where the A and K are joined by a clear arc (red in color just like the other letters) linking the bottom of A to the middle of K. I have not come across any discussion of this anywhere. Is this something new?

These were printed by the American Bank Note Company (ABN) instead of by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) because they were done in different colors and they were perforated 12 (instead of 11 which was used by the BEP at that time). It looks like several different plates were used with each one having a different color on it for the flags. Color registration was important so that on the top or bottom of the sheets can be seen the plate alignment mark for the different color plates. Given how this was done, are there any instances of inverted or misaligned flags or flag colors?

These were actually political statement or agenda stamps. They carried the international postal rate in the hope that they would inspire hope overseas. They have a theme geared towards hope with the Phoenix rising from the ashes and a woman who has been liberated from shackles.

From the EFOCC website:




Also, checkout pages 3-8 at this link for a study on the Yugoslavia double impression "error" and how it may have occurred:

http://www.nwpl.org/documents/BookR..._Dec2012.pdf

If I'm not mistaken, aren't these the first US commemoratives to be printed with the dry printing method?


-IBFS

I have each single, but this is 50 times better than what I've got. Awfully nice!


-IBFS