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Mexican Air Postal Envelope - Double Impression Or "Kiss Print"

 
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Posted 01/29/2026   2:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Battlestamps to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I came across this in a dealer's box back in October.

Would one consider this error a double impression of "kiss print"?



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Posted 01/29/2026   2:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It appears that the green color is shifted relative to the black, creating an EFO.
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Posted 01/29/2026   2:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Philatelius to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I agree--looks like a color registration issue. Very eye-catching, though--nice find!
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Posted 01/29/2026   3:15 pm  Show Profile Check 3193zd's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add 3193zd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
very cool!
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Posted 01/29/2026   3:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mml1942 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
In The catalog Postal Stationery of Mexico, by Peter Bamert, Wayne Menuz, & Bill Walton, Editors, 2017, published by the United Postal Stationery Society, Inc, and MEPSI, this is listed on page 204, as entry AE 44V1, "double indicia". Issued in 1956. Unfortunately, not illustrated in the catalog.

The description does not make any note of black, and I believe this is result of two printings with the green, one just a little darker than the other, and shifted. Just my thought.
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Edited by mml1942 - 01/29/2026 4:38 pm
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Posted 01/30/2026   02:17 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I am not sure whether one of the two printings is a deeper green than the other, or black. I think the first. As it is considerably narrower type and may even be another printing process, it does appear the printing was done in two stages. That would make this a major misalignment of colours, not a double printing or kiss printing.

A picture of a normal cover would give an idea of what it should look like.
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Posted 01/30/2026   08:49 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mml1942 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't own a copy of the original stationery item, but here is the image from the catalog mentioned in my previous post.



A close up of the envelope

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Edited by mml1942 - 01/30/2026 08:51 am
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