Stamps That Make You Look Twice

Ceremonial dress of some kind probably.


-IBFS

This is an Oscar, not an Escher.

Poor guy. Imagine 'inventing' a new art meme only to have someone else come along and get (much more) famous for it ... to the point where we say "Oh, look, it is an M C Escher!"

Or, so it seems from my little corner of North America.

Q/ Do you know from Oscar Reutersvard?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

This one threw me for a loop for quite awhile. My Scott's wasn't too helpful, but then I saw the answer in my Stanley Gibbons. Essentially, I was measuring the horizontal perf, over and over again. I would sometimes get 14, and then I would get 13. I checked the top and bottom, and got the same results. SG helped by showing me that the perf was 13-14 x 13 1/2 (SG 568). The fine print said, " ... the horizontal perforations of each stamp are in two sizes, one half of each horizontal side measuring 13 and the other 14". Why would someone do that?

Mixed perfs would totally mess with me!!

Early New Zealand, Scott 64. Not the best examples, but when I compared the two, it appears the right stamp has been scrubbed, maybe to remove a previous cancel? In any case, all of the lines surrounding the vignette are washed out.

Just got this one (cheap). What is interesting is that the date cancel is absolutely perfectly centered and is embedded into the stamp, almost like it was passed through an early typewriter. I thought it may have been some type of precancel, but then the rest of the cancellation looks like it was just an overzealous postal employee.

The 92 of the date 1/1/1892 actually pierces through the back of the stamp.

Seriously? NATO becomes OTAN? Who designed this one?

OTAN ----maybe that's French ?

For sure is French. "OTAN" is how we write your "NATO" in most Latin languages (like French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian or Catalan)
In French, "OTAN" should stand for "Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord". I'm sorry, but my French is far from perfect!

Wow, I stand corrected. I had thought that someone tried a weird mirror-image technique that went haywire. I wonder if there is a special name for words that, when translated to a different language become the reverse or mirror-image of the original? Maybe "mirwords"?

this stamp has a real perfect bullseye...i kept looking at it trying to see something out of place but it is kinda perfect.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/29118674110....m1423.l2649

Found this Romanian stamp in a nickel box. I thought I found something unique ...



I checked my catalog. It says that it was designed like this ... the stamp and label are imperforate between. Wow!