Typography Error On Stamp 1426 "Missouri Statehood, 150th Anniv."

Hi everyone!

Still going through my grandad's stamp collection and came across this stamp where the you can clearly see the font is uneven.

Has anyone else seen this error on this same stamp? I can't find mention of it anywhere in the Scott's guide or even online.

Thanks!

Not a typo but a shifted plate. These stamps were printed on a press that applied one plate at a time, and the yellow plate was off.
Nice collectible though


Peter

Hi Peter!

Ahhh! So the yellow plate was off causing the text (in yellow) to shift.

This might sound like a dumb question but if the yellow text shifted why didn't the yellow within the image shift as well? Please forgive my ignorance as I'm really trying to learn all I can about the various aspects of stamp collecting.

Thanks!

Hi twin, good question. I believe by looking at your stamp that two different yellow plates were used. One ( the shifted one ) is a much darker yellow. If you go to ebay and look for Scott 1426 you will find that the light yellow plate is in the correct position, the dark one has shifted. Hope this helps,

Peter

The shift in the main vignette may have been in such a direction that the few items in that color don't show it as the more obvious white spots missing color. And where it might have shown as a strange area of color outside the design got covered by a darker color and doesn't show.

Peter, yes this is very very helpful information and I can't thank you enough for answering my questions! :)

John, the more I look at the stamp it does appear that the yellow (the shifted one) was probably printed first because "United States" (in black) has been printed over the name "Thomas H(?)Benton" (sorry, I can't make out what his middle name is). So maybe it did get covered by a darker color and doesn't show in the image.

Do you guys think the plate number could give any more information? I'd be curious to know if the entire sheet had this error or maybe just this one out of that set.
My twin sis has been meaning to purchase a "Durland Standard Plate Number Catalog", but hasn't had the chance to yet.

Thanks again!

The entire sheet would be this way (unless it was a paper fold that caused the shift, in which case one side of the fold it could be normal and shifted on the other side)

Notice that the shifted text is a different color than the color of the plate number at the right. It may be that only the text at the bottom was printed in the orangy-yellow and that the similar looking orange in the stamp design is really a combo of the yellow and red.

I did notice the shifted text appeared more orange than yellow. Since my grandad doesn't seem to have a duplicate of this particular stamp I did a quick Google search for an image of it just to compare.

Found a site called bardostamps.com which had a bit of information (and a nice image) of the stamp.

Quantity Printed: 161,235,000 (Pane: 50) #8212; Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP)

Does the "Pane:50" mean that it was sold in a sheet of 50 stamps? (sorry if this is a dumb question)
Thanks!

Yes, it was sold in panes of 50. This stamp's printing always looks blurry.