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GB & France - Two Similar Errors

 
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Posted 10/14/2020   12:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add sopotsopot to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Last week I managed to find 2 interesting stamps with similar errors. F instead of E.



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Posted 10/14/2020   07:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nice find !
Here is a similar error on a german stamp (first E of "Deutsches")

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Posted 10/14/2020   6:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stamps101 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Congrats on the G.B. find. I have literally looked at thousands of that stamp trying to find that error and yet to see one. Quite jealous!!
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Posted 10/14/2020   8:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add waddsbadds to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
<Congrats on the G.B. find. I have literally looked at thousands of that stamp trying to find that error and yet to see one. Quite jealous!!>
Ditto. That's SG 362a, and if you don't want to look through thousands of copies on the off chance of finding one by pure luck there are several for sale at the moment on ebay in the $150 to nearly $400 range.
A similar error occurred on a popular Danish stamp, the 1912 5 kroner Copenhagen General Post Office issue, (which was reissued 3 years later on paper with a different watermark). This had the name of the city (using the Danish spelling) as Kjobfnhavn, with an "f" instead of an "e", in other words, a missing serif as in the examples above. Even the normal stamp is highly desirable with a Scott price of $175 (in 2015), so the variety is icing on the cake. The opposite occurred (an extra serif) on some of the Danish parcel post, or postal ferry stamps of 1919-1941, where the overprint said "Posffaerge" instead of "Postfaerge".
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Tough to tell without it in hand, but the French India looks like a surface scrape. Nice find on the GB, I also don't have that one. :)
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Posted 10/15/2020   01:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is a french stamp (Michel # 525) with the opposite error : E instead of F for "franc"

(not mine,maybe a fake)
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