I found this older cover, and at first thought it was a crude attempt at a fake postage due. Then I noticed that the dates are completely different. (Melbourne 1938) Any idea what someone was trying to do here? (Maybe Grandma ran out of space in her album and just decided to glue the stamp in the first place she found?)
3d was the correct overseas rate in 1937 (that is what the blue values were for). No obvious reason for the addition of the 2d red, other than perhaps it was the same basic design and the 1d stamps originally used.
Yes, way too odd. The additional value is on a different piece of paper glued to the envelope. I think it is just a contrived item, but I can't figure out the purpose since it was in the collection since 1938. Grandma did some odd things back then.
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Posted 08/29/2013 11:22 pm
