Hidden Images On US Stamps (Texas, And Others)

Hey David Giles, I am still keeping a look out for the Texas postmarked airmails. But I was wondering if while you have a interest in Texas if you had see the hidden images on the 1948 Fort Bliss Centennial stamp scott #976? Kinda neat. I know of a few others with hidden images (not counting the decoder ones), different than Texas of course might start a topic for that.

Original stamp.


Can you see the Horse, mules, wagon, camel?


Had little trouble to get a clear shot of car, train, etc.

Pretty cool stuff

1775:

Thanks for keeping an eye open for Texas postmarked air mails for me. I just collect the airmails and Texas, but it is a neat stamp, eh?

David

That's a nice issue from back when men were men and stamps were real stamps. I am always amazed with the skill of the hand engravers - especially since they had to prepare the original engraving in a mirror image!

Great stamp Mac!

Here is the star of David placed by artist on stamp #2193.




As I said before there are many hidden images in the new issues using Scrambled Indicia .
But these do not photograph well, so here is a list if interested.

Stamps-------------------Hidden Image

3036 $1.00 Red Fox--Fox
3167 32¢ U.S. Air Force -- "USAF'
3168 32¢ "The Phantom of the Opera" --2 Masquerade Masks.
3169 32¢ "Dracula"--3 Flying Bats.
3170 32¢ "Frankenstein"--3 Bolts of Electricity.
317 32¢ "The Mummy"--2 Ancient Egyptian Deities.
3172 32¢ "The Wolf Man"--2 Howling Wolves.
3178 $3.00 Mars Pathfinder --"USPS Mars Pathfinder July 4, 1997"
3206 32¢ Wisconsin Statehood-- Badger.
3230 32¢ Dog-- Bone, Doghouse.
3231 32¢ Fish --8 Bubbles.
3232 32¢ Cat --Paw Print, Mouse.
3233 32¢ Parakeet --Birdcage.
3234 32¢ Hamster --Exercise Wheel.
3238 32¢ Space City --2 Spacecraft's & figure.
3239 32¢ Space Ship Landing --Spacecraft.
3240 32¢ Person in Space Suit --Spacecraft.
3241 32¢ Space Ship Taking Off --Spacecraft.
3242 32¢ Large Domed Structure --2 Spacecraft.
3261 $3.20 Space Shuttle Landing --"Enterprise/Columbia/Challenger/Atlantis/Endeavor/Discovery"
3262 $11.75 Piggyback Space Shuttle --"Enterprise/Columbia/Challenger/Atlantis/Endeavor/Discovery"
3321 33¢ Skateboarding --"Gnarly"
3322 33¢ BMX Biking--"Rad"
3323 33¢ Snowboarding -- "Sweet"
3324 33¢ Inline Skating --"Phat"
3472 $3.50 Capitol Dome --"Priorm Mail"
3473 $12.25 Washington Monument' --"Express Mail"
3647 $3.85 Jefferson"Memorial --"Priority Mail"
3648 $I3.65 Capitol Dome --"Express Mail"
365l 37¢ Ham-Houdini --Houdini in Chains
3808-ll 37¢ Early Football Heroes
3838 37¢ U.S. Air Force Academy --Falcon
3862 37¢ National WW II Memorial --U.S.A. Flag

Thanks for the list, Mac, will have to check into some of them!

Here is scott # 2819-28 designed by Albert Hirschfeld . He was a cartoonist for the New York Times plus many others. He incorporated his daughters name " NINA " into this set.

I added two more outline hints. Can you find the rest?

See if you can see her name. Red outlines show some.

The Mars Pathfinder stamp incorporated hidden images to prevent counterfeiting, while adding an interesting design element. The hidden text -- Mars Pathfinder, July 4, 1997 and the letters USPS --is not visible to the naked eye but can only be viewed by with the secret decoder lens, which is available through the Postal Service's Philatelic Fulfillment Center in Kansas City, MO.

Wow, that's amazing info! I love mysteries like this!
What other stamp mysteries do you know??

Gussyboy1

Thanks for all the Great info guy.

I going to take out my new magnifying glass ( thanks to nr_notrare and check some of these out

dianne

Here are two more using a different approach. Micro printing, used on newer issues such as Flags and Liberty Bell to prevent photocopying of stamps.

Shown here are scott number 3314 John & William Bartram stamp and scott number 3166 Padre Felix Varela stamp



Botanical micro printed on leaf.-----------------------------USPS duplicated to produce image.
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Very interesting topic, 1775mac!

Uh ha. Uh ha. And if Captain Midnight can't decipher the code, the Martians might!

Thats amazing .. how far back does hidden inscriptions go ?

WetGlaswegian, if you really want to get technical about it in the 1840-1850's many banknote stamps or early classics have secret marks. These were done into the design of the stamp when different printing companies switched as to identify their printing.

Modern_who, Captian Midnight's secret code- Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine!