(Efo) Errors Freaks And Oddities

At least Canada in German and English are close, since both are European language family. Head further east, and well...

Thanks khj! But, but how do I spell that??!

Does one have to change one's keyboard as well as the Character Encoding in the browser to search in Chinese or other Asian languages? I suppose it helps also if one understands it in the first place.

The "spelling" will depend upon which Romanization method you use. The most common one used in Mainland China would spell Canada as Jia Na Da. The more traditional spelling would be Chia Na Ta. However, all this spelling is primarily for English users, as the Chinese would type the character directly.

It depends on how your system is set up. There is unfortunately no single simple answer.

For North America Windows software, I believe the default is NOT to install the Chinese keyboard. Once you install the keyboard, you only have to switch.

The browser has separate settings regarding which languages it will decipher/display, which will vary with your browser. You have to play with your browser settings and also your system internet settings.

That's why I ended up posting it as a graphic instead of encoded characters.

This 2009 mini sheet would be an ERROR because it shows trimmed perfs at the bottom. All recent Guatemala mini sheets (aka Souvenir Sheets) are imperforate on the four borders. Only 5,000 of these were issued and since it is a late 2009 issue, it is unknown to date how many error sheets exist. My friends at the only Guatemala philatelic office went through a stack of these and sold all 5 to me that were found in the stack.

marty

Here is a block of Scott #1048 should be green

Marty,
That is a really nice story.
Thanks

Here's an error that I think I touched on in another recent thread. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward inverted center from the 1901 Nyassa series. They're sought after, and catalogue at around 60 euros (Yvert) to 90 euros each (Afinsa).

The trouble is, the majority of them are deliberate errors. The 1901 series was reprinted a number of times - on one of those occasions, in 1903, one sheet (50 stamps) of each value was accidentally printed upside down. Demand was so high that the printers (Waterlows) subsequently, in 1922, reprinted 20 sheets (1000 stamps) of each value inverted and released them directly to the collector market. I guess time has blurred the distinction, but since it's possible to tell the 1903 and 1922 printings apart, it should be possible to determine whether a value is a "genuine" error or a "deliberate" error.

GS

I think most errors are deliberate errors. The Postal Services just won't admit it.

Think about how many 'errors' there are, from GB alone for example, and then ask, "How can so many errors get onto the market via dealers without being noticed".

It's just absurd.

Londonbus1...doesn't believe in errors.

This stamp should slot in nicely here...

Just arrived by post today was this 2012 civil aviation stamp from Macedonia which unfortunately spells the country wrongly.


How it should be spelled!


Obviously the stamp designer was A COMEDIAN... which incidentally is an anagram of MACEDONIA

The lazy proofreader was taking his 'e's!

Here's an interesting EFO (color missing) coil -- that was actually used for postage:

That's lovely wt1.

Missing [Blue] text !

Mis-Perf!