Contrary to what I stated earlier, I just learned something completely new myself on the 3c Torch of Enlightenment Issue, thanks to this thread. The link is provided below, but it states, in part:
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The rapidity with which the BEP produced these billions of stamps contributed to many freaks and oddities and the largest number of genuine errors in US postage stamps (mostly imperforated varieties). Writing in the March, 1948, issue of the Bureau Specialist, Jesse L. Bogard noted, "The most important and beautiful part about the Defense errors was that no one party or group got or monopolized them as they were found from Maine to Texas, Washington to Florida. The average collector and stamp hunter had a crack at the errors as they were likely to be found in any post office, whether large or small."
In 1991, the late Henry W, Beecher, an expert on US postage stamp production, clarified the persistent myths that the perforation freaks and errors were caused by war-time shortages - for instance, shortage of the perforation machine's metal pins. He noted that controls of such materials did not begin until January 1942, when War Production was initiated. It was just the demand for unprecedented quantities and desire for rapid delivery to local post offices that, according to Beecher, caused the peculiarities in production.
Here's the link:
http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1...&tid=2028701Now, what other oddities have people found in flyspecking this issue?
Posted 05/15/2012 10:51 am
