2011 MN State Fish Art Stamp Error: An Error You Can Buy!

Anyone read about this "error" in the State Fish Art Stamp from Minnesota and how the promoters are dealing with it by selling them to interested collectors at a small premium?

http://netnewsledger.com/2011/09/30...stamp-error/

But is this a real stamp, or just a fundraising sticker? It doesn't appear to be a real hunting/fishing stamp that would be purchased to pay a licensing fee.

I don't know about Minnesota laws and such on those stamps, but maybe someone from that region of the country can help us clarify.

Actually, I wondered if these could have been intentionally made errors as a means to boost the organization's fund raising efforts. While such action would likely be considered "fraudulent" who is to stop someone from printing a privately-issued stamp (or printing one in error), if one should desire to do so? In this quote, Wildlife Forever as much as acknowledged that such errors in this day are made by man and not machine:




Actually, in this day and age, I wonder how it could be claimed that "someone missed the copy deletion in the proof stage" ... which only resulted in 1200 or so errors, when the overall correct printing of the stamp was produced in many times that amount?