When Things Go Wrong

Amazing to find someone goes to all the trouble of hand painting a FDC and then the stamps are placed badly.

2 glaring errors here
Selvage stuck over the landing ducks head, and 20c stamp upside down

Hard to beleive

That's an oops.

I have done something similar with a postcard and a stamp on the front (trying to create a maxicard) and have had the stamp go cock-eyed and then the modern cancel ink not stick to the modern printing of the postcard and stamp completely.

Ah well, worth a try I thought.


The I let the Post Mistress do it with a second postcard and she got it right. Sigh.

sometimes our thoughts wander.

It looks more like a cross-stitch or highly pixelated computer assisted image. If it's not someone went to great lengths to make it look as such. I know that if I had that much time inti a piece that it would probably be framed!

Holmes: "Dr. Watson, there's something very odd about this cover!"

Watson: "Indeed! What have you deduced, Sherlock, that the best philatelic minds of a generation have missed?"

Holmes: "You see that the $12.50 duck stamp has a first day cancel, and that it is a machine cancel, which would not normally be set so low on an envelope..."

Watson: "Yes, yes?"

Holmes: "And thus the duck stamp was applied by a clerk, who thought the original sender would appreciate a plate number single..."

Watson: "Brilliant!"

Holmes: "...and paid no attention to covering up the duck's head! GUILTY!"

Watson: "But what of the inverted 20 cent stamp?"

Holmes: "I am nearly late for tea with the Queen, where I shall trade my Mozambique purple for a Penny Black! I am off! The invert must await my return!"

Watson: "By Jove, Mr. Holmes, you shall triumph again!"

Holmes: "Nay, sir, the boot leaks in the Triumph. I'm taking the Jaguar!"

True!

The cover is a John Byrnes cachet and is a computer printed cover.

Interesting - I saw it advertised as 'hand painted'