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Save Vanishing Species Semi-Postal - Color Misregistration?

 
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Posted 09/20/2011   6:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wt1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Did anyone else pickup the new "Save Vanishing Species" semi-postal stamp issued today (09/20/2011)? Here's a single scanned from the sheet I bought:



It looks to me as if this sheet (all stamps are approximately the same) has a rather significant color mis-registration in the image of the tiger and the words "USA First-Class +".

Obviously, I have nothing to compare this to, so I was wondering if anyone can tell me if this is normal on all of the stamps or if this self-described color mis-registration may be a collectible variety.

Any comments?

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Posted 09/23/2011   6:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Since no one responded to my previous post on this, I went to a different Post Office today and picked up another sheet of the Save Vanishing Species Semi-Postal. The sheet I picked up today is perfect, as it should be, and confirms my initial thought that the first sheet I picked up has a significant color misregistration.

Here are hi res scans of a stamp from the two different sheets that is visually noticeable in the tiger cub image and the "USA First Class +" even without magnification:


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Posted 09/23/2011   8:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add spanishmoss to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Do you think the messed up one will be worth more? That would be pretty neat!
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Posted 09/23/2011   8:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Color misregistrations are reasonably common. I wish they were worth a premium, but chances are they were created in such quantity that little (if any) premium will be realized. It's just the challenge of uncovering them that I find of interest.

You would think that the printing process used in the 21st century would be improved to such a degree that such things wouldn't happen in this day, but I guess they still do.

If nothing else, it's what makes stamp collecting so interesting!
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Posted 09/23/2011   9:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add spanishmoss to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
If nothing else, it's what makes stamp collecting so interesting!



Very well said!
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