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I've seen it happen often enough over all eras, perhaps more common in a busy office like Philadelphia. There is no keying to keep the number from being inserted incorrectly, the type matter is rectangular, so it's an easy mistake to make. Since an upside-down "8" can't be mistaken for anything else, I would wonder if the clerk would even bother to fix it even if it was noticed. |
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Wow, not certain how common but this highlights the superior attention to detail of a philatelist. |
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Inverted parts of CDS's are not terribly rare - lots of mistakes were made and they make nice novelties for collections.
Another kind of mistake that was made often enough, was forgetting to change the year date on January 1. There are plenty of letters out there with a date 1 year prior to when they were actually mailed as a result. Those are a challenge to find and prove. |
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Mere child's play my friends. Stumping the experts, now that's a challenge. Take the following cover, for instance. It's Jan 1st CDC. New years day, whooho! Now tell me; Is this January 1 of 1851, or January 1 of 1852? Look carefully, and remember the rate change!  |
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Post mark aside (not my strongsuit) I'd say 1/1/52 or later as the rate changed to 3c beginning 6/30/51 which would rule out 1/1/51. |
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If that's a folded letter then its 52.
If that's a printed circular, then its probably 51.
I don't off-hand recall that NYC CDS from 52, it looks like one of the older pre 1851-era handstamps. That said, there are CDS's predominantly used on stampless letters. |
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I have this cover from the Pan American airmail test that was conducted on Nov. 1 1946. But the circular post mark says oct.1 1946. So that was an obvious error on the post office since this test took place only on Nov, 1.  |
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