Mystery Coil

I have a DAVO hingeless U.S. album Vol. 1. My airmails are complete (through 1944) with the exception of one space that mocks me whenever I turn to this section. It lies in the section for C25-31. There is no picture, but it is described as being 6 cent Carmine coil. I for the life of me cannot find any reference to this stamp in the Scott U.S. Specialized or Brookman. Also curious is that DAVO provides NO spaces for actual coils amongst the regular issues in this album so I don't see why they would provide a space for a nonexistent coil. I do have one unlikely hypothesis. I understand that printers will sometimes throw in an intentional "error" to help protect their copyright as should someone copy the pages DAVO would be able to prove they made copies because the copies would include a space they themselves made up. Anyone able to throw some light on this? I believe there is a few more examples within the album of something similar, can't recall where though just now.

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You heard this from someone who was thinking too hard.

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My petard stands ready for the hoist.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

This old thread might shed some light on this longstanding "problem" with DAVO album spaces:

https://goscf.com/t/36758

Could the spots be meant for Booklet instead? The below is the only one in this series you mention.




I don't see coils until C37.

Eagle

If I look at the Canadian Davo it's easy to see they don't make to much research. So no it's not copyright protection it's only the less effort possible



In the Canadian album Davo use the same size of rectangles and mounts for the half cent small and large queen so even if you place a stamp you can see top of th drawing at the back since the stamp is mount to low

I agree with Eagle; they must have intended the space for a booklet pane single of Scott C25a. That issue was produced as booklet lanes of three, and the middle stamp when seen alone resembles a coil as it is perforated only horizontally. One of the editors must have seen a middle single and thought it was a coil issue. 2014 SCV for a pane of three, MNH, is only $4 so you should be able to fill the space easily.

Intentional "errors" happen in novels and other books with a high expectation of being pirated. No one would do that to a stamp album.

Didn't the USPS recently release a few new "inverted Jennys?"* I wonder how stamp albums will list them?!

*That's what I heard. The idea seems preposterous, so I chose not to believe it.

Thanks wt1....I went to the thread you linked to and saw that "I" was the original poster with the same question. Duh.

howell, same time next year? (Wink.)