Judy Garland Stamp Errors

I was passing by a thrift shop today and decided to check for stamps. I was in luck and picked up a "LEGENDS OF HOLLYWOOD" Judy Garland block of 20 in a glassed frame. Lucky to find some errors among them. There are 2 different marks on neck; 2 different marks through signature; and 2 with a black dot beside Judy's lips. I do not see any listings for errors in Unitrade and was wondering what these may be worth. Does anyone have any idea on the value or rarity? Comments please.

$7.80 worth of postage. Selling for $10 on ebay. Maybe you can find a better printed copy. Stamp printing is pretty bad any more. Just look at the messy Jenny's.

Redwoodrandy , I geuss you probably would have returned a 2 cent Small Queen Double impression for a new one because it was not perfect.

You were asking about a particular stamp. I gave you my opinion on the stamp and another example of pathetic modern printing of some US stamps. Now you bring up a double impression error of worth.

Sorry Red, I should have compared these stamps to the Scott 41vi 3C Small Queen "Vampire Bite". As a matter of fact I have named this the "Double Vampire Bite Block".

These are not "errors". They are very minor printing varieties, fun to find and collect but of no real financial value. Searching for varieties like this is called "flyspecking".

Yes, freaks are worth whatever someone is willing to pay and that is usually face or less. Plate varieties are worth more but again limited to what someone is willing to pay and to be a plate variety, must occur on more than two.

C3a, the famous inverted air plane, is very overpriced based on the quantity known. This is due to tradition and to demand.

The value of the C3a is mostly due to the oft repeated and very well known story, and the fact that it is probably the most famous stamp in the world. Hundreds of millions of people who know absolutely nothing about stamps and care even less have heard of it. It is a larger than life philatelic item.

I have to agree with revcollector, that these are not errors and are simply minor and trivial variations in the printing process. If this flyspecking interests you, then carry on, but it seem pointless to me. Sorry...

Donald

Those "vampire bites" are very interesting and do remind me of the Small Queen vampire bite plate flaw. Very cool!

A plate flaw is a mark or flaw that prints something on every copy of the stamp in that position from the emergence of the flaw.
A printing error (or freak, or oddity) is caused by a one-off mistake during the printing process, such as inverting the sheet between colors, printing on both sides of the paper, or printing on folded paper. The value of both is a matter of the degree of error, the supply, and the demand).

Think about it this way - a stamp where they failed to perforate the stamp is worth more than one where they ran the perforations down the center of the stamp. However, if they perforate the stamp at the edge of the image, it decreases the value of the stamp, rather than increases it. I think that most people would put the ink smudges you point out in the latter category, rather than one of the first two categories, but it only takes two people who share your passion to drive up the price. Good luck finding them.

There is always a possibility that the marks on the neck could have been produced by a flaw in one of the aluminium plates near the end of the production run. This would mean that there would be more than one block of stamps with this error. What would you say if more like it were found? Would it then not be a new modern plate flaw variety?

yes it would.
Any flaw that either is, or becomes constant would be a variety.
One can look at some of the flaws that emerged in the US 1c Franklin of 1851 or the "Spectacles" flaw on position BH of plate 4 of the 2d 1841 of GB.
However, it is incumbent of the one claiming this to be something other than "plate schmutz" (look it up) to prove the recurrence.

C