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Overrun Countries Flag Denmark Misprint?

 
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Posted 05/20/2025   12:29 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Paid to your friends list Get a Link to this Message


Can anyone tell me what you would call this kind of printing error? The stamp is missing ink on the flag and has a floating black spot. Here is two photos, a normal stamp and the printing error stamp.

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Error stamp:


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Posted 05/20/2025   02:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There are many known varieties with the overrun series. Yours is a poor scan, but it looks like surface scraping during handling or storage, rather than a printing variety.
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It is Scott 920 "a" or "c" which are the two varieties (black versus grey black) where the printing was reversed with the flag red over the black or grey flag shading.

Regarding the black spot, I would need to see the back of the stamp.


Edit: See strike-through.
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Here is a photo of the back of stamp. Hope this helps. Thanks.
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Here is a closer image of the flag does it still look damaged or mishandled? Thanks.
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I agree with partime
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When I look at my stamp in person it doesn't look damaged. It is too bad that either of you can't see it in person. I have a stamp which is scuffed and you can really tell how it was mistreated. All in all I appreciate your opinion.
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I don't have my French's reference in front of me, but the black spot to the left of the flagpole may be a known variety.
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Here is a photo of the back of stamp. Hope this helps. Thanks.


Well it rules out a paper inclusion. The spot is likely a small spot of grey ink, splashed on the paper during printing. Ink spots are considered as a freak in the EFO terms of art.

The whitish areas in the body of the red flag color seems to be a lack of ink or ink adhesion rather that when dry, surface scraping. The red color seems to be having a bit of an issue give the nature of the letters in the red "DENMARK." These were not BEP products rather printed by the American Bank Note Company. Over all of the thirteen designs they seemed to have printing issues which resulted in inconsistency.
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I don't have my French's reference in front of me, but the black spot to the left of the flagpole ma(y) be a known variety.

Small edit there Partime.
My copy IS just over there. Turning to page 285, I find 21 known positions, 10 are Red dots and lines and 1 is black.
LR 33 Black dot below "A" of DENMARK.

Good news! I will be offering my copy of Loran C. French's Encylopedia of Plate Varieties on U.S. Bureau-Printed Postage stamps for sale here in the next week.
Here it is!
https://goscf.com/t/89609
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Thanks for the input everyone, appreciate your help.
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