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I was wondering, errors, freaks, & oddities.... what are they? Wiki gives a pretty decent explanation: An error is any sort of production mistake that is (potentially) replicated on many stamps; the famous Inverted Jenny is the best known of these, having resulted from a sheet of partial prints being accidentally re-inserted into the printing press upside down for the second color, resulting in an invert error. Design errors include wrong dates, wrong names, wrong pictures, anachronisms and the like. Color errors include stamps like the Treskilling Yellow which should have been green, as well as missing colors in modern multi-colored stamps. It is not especially rare for the perforating equipment to malfunction and result in imperforate errors. A freak is a one-time mishap in the production process. Freaks include paper folds resulting in half-printed half-blank stamps, "crazy perfs" running diagonally across stamps, and insects embedded in stamps, underneath the ink. An oddity is something that is within the bounds of usability for the stamp, but still has a distinctive appearance. The usual sort of oddity is misregistration on a multi-colored stamp, which can result in shirts apparently with two sets of buttons, eyes above the top of a person's head, and so forth. These can be extremely common. The Canadian Christmas stamp of 1898, depicting a map of the world with British possessions in red, is famous for unusual color oddities that appear to claim all of Europe, or the United States, or central Asia for Britain. |
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Wow, this large lot sold for $455 bucks. I would have never guessed that someone would pay that much. So much sorting and time. I am still baffled by the quantity. Here is another one that is similar, this seller sure does take a LOT of photos that's for sure! I guess one big lot equals one shipping fee instead of breaking down and selling individual packets? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...EMK:US:LISTG |
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I bought a lot that was something like this last summer. It was a US collection in several shoe boxes. Some boxes were just many stamps in glassines going up through Scott #1300 or so and kind of sparse on the lower numbers as you would expect. Often times the glassines contained 100 stamps sometimes less. It was described as a packet-makers lot, but I assumed it was slightly under-described (which I gathered from examining the few photos and description).
There was one box that contained a lot of different material, not yet sorted, some of it pretty nice stuff, including old back of book stamps (airmails, special delivery, revenues, cut squares etc). In all the lot was a massive collection of at least 15,000 US stamps. I haven't gone through the different varieties, nor do I know what I will do with all the duplicates. But it was worth the $200 or so I paid for the lot just for the one shoebox that was not sorted.
Part of the justification I gave myself for bidding pretty blindly on this lot was I though I could sell packets some time down the road and recoup some of my cost. |
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Buying bundleware is a big part of our stock and being able to give good bonus stamps. Some images lasting time we sorted bundleware.    After a lot of sorting we finally got our stock organised. General stock from 1966 to 2010.  All of this was all done by my family and it will always be a treasured time. |
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John,
I am still trying to figure out how you kept the cats away from those piles of stamps. They would jusat have to investigate those once they saw them. |
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I am still trying to figure out how you kept the cats away from those piles of stamps. Twice the two cats had a fight all over the extended stamp piles. A weeks work at a time all mixed up all over the place. Both times I can still remember the silence as all family members just stared at each other and the messed up stamp piles. Both cats are making amends by becoming very popular images on personalised stamps. Shortly another three cat images will grace P stamps. My wife has a beautiful image of them together and another one each that will make good single cat images. We recieved an email from a lady outside Australia asking for more Kitty stamps  . Cats are very popular, amazingly so. The only time I felt like crumbing one of my wifes cats was the time I ended up with $150 of cat claw perfins and of coarse they were Aust KGV 1d reds. |
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We recieved an email from a lady outside Australia asking for more Kitty stamps. Cats are very popular, amazingly so. I did mention your stamps to one lady in France. If that is the same one then look at here, she sells also at times. Quote:
The only time I felt like crumbing one of my wifes cats was the time I ended up with $150 of cat claw perfins and of coarse they were Aust KGV 1d reds. At least they had good taste!   |
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