2003 American Film Making Color Shift? Doubled Dates.

Would this be an example of a color shift? The date is doubled on each stamp in the block of 10 and the stamp frame has some areas with blue over the white squares. There are also areas of blue on the stamps that should not be blue. What could be the cause of these errors?

Wow that really rocks. Costume stamp guy looks like a smurf. All dates doubled?

I have checked my Film Making stamps and the color is brownish where yours are tinted blue, so I think you may be missing a colour. I may be wrong but others may chime in.

Thanks ER. Is the doubled date a "double impression"?

Are these doubled dates a colour shift or double impression, or something else?

The doubling is not a double impression (I've seen it on other modern US stamps too and have heard of the cause, but can not remember what it is).

I'm not that familiar with the modern US issues. But on the earlier US (pre-2000), it was not rare to see doubling in stamps from 1970s onward. For stamps in which the tagging was applied after printing, this image doubling was usually caused by ghost tagging rather than an actual double impression during printing. Ghost tagging produces a much lighter secondary image that is not really noticeable unless it is shifted. The 2nd image is caused by ink transferring onto the tagging mat and then being transferred back onto the stamp. I didn't check to see if the film-making issue was printed on pre-phosphored paper or if the taggant was applied afterwards.

The costume "guy" you are talking about (at least I think it's who you are talking about) is Edith Head. She was a well known designer for Paramount and later for Universal. Universally recognized, she was probably the most famous costume designer of her day. A character in "The Incredibles" (the designer of course) was based on her.

Wickipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Head

I would say it's just a registration error.