US Xmas 1507 Blue Line

An interesting horizontal line at the bottom of this stamp. Any ideas?

And, just for fun, please notice that all of the bottom lettering is slightly doubled.

Yours appears to have a color misregistration that causes the look of the lettering (and the picture) to appear slightly blurred.

In fact, if you flyspeck that stamp a bit closer, I think you'll find another anomaly ... that the halo over the Christ Child is broken in the center!

Nonetheless, back to your question about that mysterious horizontal line. It prompted me to check my stockbook and I came up with this one, which I thought at first was damaged, but after looking at your copy I'm not so sure ... as I never noticed it before:

it could be an ink pull/drag from the cancellation equipment couldn't it?

Anything's possible, I suppose. It was just interesting that I found a blue streak across a stamp quite similar (but wider) to the one Partime posted. That what made me curious about it.

I discounted this option because of the similarity in blue hue to the color in the stamp itself, but, as is said, anything is possible. I find it interesting that wt1's example has a similar shade, but in a completely different place and width. Just a curiosity for future reference. Thanks for the comments.

At first, I thought it might be some trick to guide the printing process somehow. Those types of things are usually in the margins tho, anyway.

My 1507 Christmas issue is perfect. No lines or printing problems of any sort. (Sorry)


-IBFS