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15 October 1880 Provisional issue Stanley Gibbons K4s Specimen type 9 overprint on 1 1/2d Venetian red Wmk. Imperial Crown Stanley Gibbons K4  |
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8 December 1880 Provisional issue Stanley Gibbons K5t Specimen type 9 overprint on 2d Deep rose Wmk. Imperial Crown Stanley Gibbons K5(2)  |
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15 March 1881 Provisional issue Stanley Gibbons K6s Specimen type 9 overprint on 5d Indigo Wmk. Imperial Crown Stanley Gibbons K6  |
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Beautiful! Is there a story behind how so many of those errors escaped notice? Could they have been intentional? |
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There weren't "a lot" of them, there was almost certainly only one position in the plate with the error. So every time they printed the overprint one stamp got one. It was clearly an error, there is no conceivable reason why they would deliberately misspell the word. |
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There were 100 sheets of 100 printed of each of the nine departments, so 100 each. But the error was discovered during the printing of O16, the 2c Interior, so there are one or possibly two of them, but no other Interiors. All nine Agricultures, No Executives, all 10 Justice, all 11 Navy, all 10 Post Office, and the 1c was inverted, all 11 of the small State, No Treasury, and all 11 War.
Agriculture and War seem to be the more plentiful, as there are complete sets of each. |
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