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Hi all, I have recently come upon this block of 10 of the 50c Mosque stamp of Christmas Island.

It appears to have had a sheet number hand written above column 3 and signatured above column 5.

Can this be

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You Can't Enjoy Life Sitting On Your Ah... well.

Is that Elvis Presley's signature next to the sheet number?

Maybe. I can even conceive circumstances where it could/would have been done.

A scan of the item in question would help. Without one, well, I think it was probably uuummm...Nostrodamus.

Norm

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No one hand writes sheet numbers on modern issues (imagine the RSI!) and I doubt that they printed 34,000 of that sheet.

Stock number, product code number?

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An inventory mark of some sort...a customer number when they were filling orders (would be pretty dumb to 'damage' stamps you're sending to a collector--but non-collectors always consider the selvedge as 'waste')...maybe even a phone number and they did have any scrap paper on hand to jot down the details.

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I second this. Canadian Post Office employees have a nasty habit of writing things in pen in the selvedge for inventory purposes. Silver lining - it tells you what PO it came from. Negative, it's basically damage

If it was an auditing reference, then I would expect it to be in green ink.

99% sure it would be the product code/stock number written onto the top of the sheet for easy reference for LPO employees.

For sets that aren't standard letter rate issues, (For example Bathurst St Philatelic have an entire folder filled with various modern Cocos Keeling Islands, and another folder filled with Christmas Islands) a PO needs to enter a product code into the Point of Sale equipment to process the sale.

So LPO employee will often write the stock code onto the top of the sheet, or onto a small piece of paper next to the sheet.

Hope this helps.