Philatelic Errors - stamps, covers & FDCs, please show yours

bazza4338 · Post by **bazza4338** » 11 Sep 2015 09:10

Nursing Profession Commemoration - Centenary of Florence Nightingale in the Crimea.

Date Of Issue 21st. September 1955

This FDC cancelled Broken Hill NSW 20th. September 1955

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 11 Sep 2015 18:15

bazza4338 wrote:Banded Ant-Eater (Numbat) Wesley First Day Cover

New Design 6d Stamp

29th September 1960

Stamp cancelled Golden Square (Bendigo) Victoria on 29 September 1960.

ACSC 2006 Page 8/151 shows Date of Issue:- 30 September 1960

Stanley Gibbons Comm. & Brit. Empire 2009 Page 57 shows Date of Issue:- 30 September 1960

Bazza

I have one of these too:

What we think happened here was that Aust Post changed the date of issue. However before they notified Wesley & Royal, some blanks had been sent to "standing order" customers. Stocks still on hand were overprinted with the amended date:

Or were just typed over by the customer:

This happened a few times around this period & we believe that both Wesley & Royal printed the cachets without dates & added the dates later when the issue date was confirmed. This is why sometimes you will see their cachets without dates.

Brad

Rob1956 · Post by **Rob1956** » 12 Sep 2015 06:33

1966 4c Queen Elizabeth II coil stamp, fawn and black printing misplaced approximately 2mm upwards (mint unhinged).

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 13 Sep 2015 18:28

Further to Bazza's query on the dates printed on WCS fdcs:

GPO Perth with printed date:

GPO Perth without printed date:

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 13 Sep 2015 18:37

The same also applied to Royal fdcs.

With the 1960 Melbourne Cup we believe there were two date printings, the first done in the colour of the horse starting directly below the Royal logo & the second in black placed slightly to the left under Royal logo.

The first printing of black horse with light blue grandstand:

The second printing:

The missing date:

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 13 Sep 2015 18:44

Just to demonstrate this with the brown horse.

The first printing of brown horse with light blue grandstand:

The second printing date in black:

The missing date:

I have other examples but this gives you the idea.

Brad

GregoryP · Post by **GregoryP** » 14 Sep 2015 14:06

Brad,

Thanks for those - a wonderful case of picture working so well to show the variations.

I had not noticed the 2 printings on the Royal, so your Information is much appreciated.

BTW - I am quite keen on WCS and Royal of the early 1960s because of this type of variation: without date, with date; and also the changed / altered issue dates (as for the Anteater).

Greg.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 01 Oct 2015 10:15

Greg

You might find this thread of interest:

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17784

Brad

GregoryP · Post by **GregoryP** » 02 Oct 2015 15:35

Thanks very much Brad.

That thread has lots of First Day Cover information - about Wesley Cover Services (WCS), and the Australian Cover Collectors Association (ACCA) and McCallum's Printers "Parade" covers, plus a lot more.

I especially enjoyed the huge number of WCS covers used for the Territories - for Cocos and Christmas Islands, plus the extensive coverage of Norfolk Island FDCs. Fantastic.

Greg.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 05 Nov 2015 22:24

There used to be an everyday pictorial postmark at Moonee Ponds, for the W S Cox Plate, it was introduced for the 1993 Spring Carnival.

But some boffin at Australia Post H Q, with the initials T.M., decided because it did not say "Home of the Cox Plate" it could only be used on Cox Plate Day. From memory they decided this in 2002 in the Year of the Horse when stamps were issued for Sunline, Manikato, Wakeful, Rising Fast & Might And Power. I can recall becoming rather annoyed when I went out to Moonee Ponds & they refused to postmark my fdcs.

Anyhow I digress. Because the Flemington Post Office is normally closed on Melbourne Cup day, I usually go out to Flemington the day before to have my annual Melbourne Cup covers postmarked with the "Home of the Melbourne Cup" pictorial postmark.

There are new staff & a new manager there now due to a couple of happenings that may have been in the local paper (but Mum's the word). The new staff & manager have come from, guess where, initials M. P.

So on Monday the Manager, Baabaabaarra, said she could only postmark my covers on Melbourne Cup day & she couldn't give me the covers back until Wednesday because that would be wrong & I could sell them on ebay. To postmark them on any other day other than Melbourne Cup Day (when the Post Office is closed), would be wrong & I could sell them for "big bucks" on ebay. She said she had mail orders for other days like Oaks day but because she didn't have an Oaks Day postmark they couldn't be done & she had postmarked all requests on date of Cup day, when the office was closed & would send them out on Wednesday. So she said come back Wednesday & she would postmark my covers. I said I had come from the other side of town & wouldn't be back till Thursday & she agreed to postmark my covers then. I told her this was most unusual I had been postmarking covers on days other than Melbourne Cup Day for nearly 30 years & explained the difference between Flemington & Moonee Ponds (which I don't agree with). She then decided she would confirm this with the Philatelic Bureau before I returned today. She then went on to make some more extraordinary statements which I prefer not to put here as someone might sell them on ebay for big bucks!

Guess what when I went in there today, Baabaabaarra said I was right. The Philatelic Bureau told here she could postmark any day, except a future date. So here is the result signed by 2015 Melbourne Cup winning trainer Darren Weir:

So isn't wrong to postmark a cover on a date where that post office was not open. Perhaps I could now sell this for "big bucks" on ebay

Sssshh don't Baabaabaarra, & end of rant.

Brad

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 05 Nov 2015 23:41

Guess this one is "wrong" too & I should sell it for "big bucks" on ebay too

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 06 Nov 2015 17:48

I had previously only see the doctor blade flaw in the Darby Munro gutter from this set:

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 06 Nov 2015 17:51

I had previously only see the doctor blade flaw in the Darby Munro gutter from this set:

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 12 Dec 2015 09:26

This 4 bar cds hand cancel from Westchester New Jersey is missing the year.

This cover could have been used from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990's. The 2 ounce rate was 52c from 1991 to 1994.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 23 Dec 2015 12:48

The 2d NSW duty stamp should not have been used for postage but apparently it tricked the post office who didn't tax it.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 23 Dec 2015 13:06

The Peace issue for the end of WWII was issued by Australia on 18th February 1946 as shown by the fdc below:

However someone used the "Posts & Telegraph Office" cancel & forgot to change the month making it appear it the Peace stamps were used one month early & took 5 weeks to arrive at their destination instead of one.

rsah6426 · Post by **rsah6426** » 23 Dec 2015 15:29

Not sure if this can be called an error ... normally this FDC for Sachin Tendulkar's 200th test match should have the related stamps affixed and cancelled, but this one doesn't have !

Joy Daschaudhuri · Post by **Joy Daschaudhuri** » 23 Dec 2015 15:39

It is called blank FDC.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 23 Dec 2015 17:55

Joy Daschaudhuri wrote:It is called blank FDC.

or "unserviced" fdc

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 29 Dec 2015 22:30

Given the last cover shown was cricket & that the Boxing Day Test ended today I thought I might post this Centenary Test cricket cover here. When all goes well it looks like this:

But if you forget to put the black printing on it, it comes out like this:

Brad

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 16 Jan 2016 07:34

One of the new Wildflower stamps issued on 14th December 2015:

But it would appear that when the year was changed over for 2016, on the pictorial "Waterwheel" machine cancel at Tatura, not only did someone roll the date back to 2014 they also managed to invert the date line.

And 8 days into the New Year & no one has picked this up & fixed it.

Brad

azzaro · Post by **azzaro** » 16 Jan 2016 13:32

Wrong usage - I did have a big collection of these sometime in the past

azzaro · Post by **azzaro** » 16 Jan 2016 13:50

Major colour issue here

rsah6426 · Post by **rsah6426** » 23 Jan 2016 21:38

Here's an interesting error - KGVI stamp surcharged NINE NINE instead of NINE PIES !

rsah6426 · Post by **rsah6426** » 10 Feb 2016 04:04

Not sure if this can be termed as an error - this FDC has got the stamp upside down ...

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 10 Feb 2016 13:57

rsah6426 wrote:Not sure if this can be termed as an error - this FDC has got the stamp upside down ...

No I wouldn't call that an error, but if the design was printed on the stamp upside down, like an "Inverted Jenny" then absolutely.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 14 Feb 2016 00:49

A design error exists with the new Australian Stamp to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the change to decimal currency:

The stamp shows a $1 coin, a $1 note & a £1 note. £1 = $2 or 20/-. The stamp then should have shown a $1 note, $1 coin & a 10/- note.

Brad

Rob1956 · Post by **Rob1956** » 14 Feb 2016 08:31

You have an eagle eye Brad, I didn't realise that; I remember the changeover of our currency from pre-decimal to decimal 50 years ago today; I should have known.

An error for sure, thanks for pointing it out.

azzaro · Post by **azzaro** » 14 Feb 2016 14:09

If the stamp has the title 'decimal currency 1966-2016' should it even have a £1 note pictured?

Rob1956 · Post by **Rob1956** » 15 Feb 2016 06:54

azzaro wrote:If the stamp has the title 'decimal currency 1966-2016' should it even have a £1 note pictured?

I might be a little pedantic here, the pre-decimal currency was still officially in use from January 1 - February 13, 1966 when 1966 was still pre-decimal.

What the stamp represents is the change-over since February 14, 1966, not January 1 - February 13, 1966. So adding the pre-decimal note is correct, though the £1 banknote isn't the correct note as Brad previously pointed out.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 27 Feb 2016 08:54

A recent trip to Castlemaine saw me receive this postmark (when I wanted the gold mining postmark - which was out of dateline). I thought it looked pretty flash. However this postmark was withdrawn at the closure of the event on 7th December 2007. Below is Colleen Woolley's write-up from Oz Pictormarks:

There a few of these flying around the world now

svscnz · Post by **svscnz** » 28 Feb 2016 11:43

1948 NZ Health FDCs.

According to the Stephen Jones' book on NZ pre-decimal health FDCs, this cover exists in predominantly three colours;
namely, pinkish purple, brown and orange brown.
Therefore the covers you show are quite normal for that issue.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 04 Mar 2016 20:08

BigSaint wrote:Now when was the 125th Anniversary of the Eureka Stockade?

Was it?

A :- 3rd December 1978
B :- 3rd December 1979
C :- 3rd December 1980
The answer of course is "B" 3rd December 1979, so the Sydney Philatelic Sales Centre make a bad date error while it is possible someone came back to Eureka the next year but somehow I don't think so.

Brad

As already stated in the previous post, first day of issue was 3rd December 1979, how the post office did this not clear especially as this was specifically design for the Waltzing Matilda issue (see next post).

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 04 Mar 2016 20:16

A description from Colleen Woolley's Oz Pictomarks. I just cannot understand how the pse below & the pse in the previous post could be postmarked this way:

For the record, the 175th Anniversary of the Foundation of Hobart was 30th May 1979.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 19 Mar 2016 15:56

When the 8d Tiger Cat was issued it was issued on 11th May 1960, as shown on the cover below:

However this 5d Guides Cover, issued on 18th August 1960 had 3 of the Tiger Cat affixed which was incorrectly cancelled with the Clarence Street fdi postmark on 18th August 1960, when it had been issued 3 months earlier.

Brad

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 27 Mar 2016 23:43

On 25th January 2016, Australia issued a new set of stamps called "Love to Celebrate":

I don't know much about this cachetmaker except that he is an eBay seller from Perth, so I don't know he managed to have this new $1 stamp cancelled with the fdi postmark with the 33c Australia Day stamp that was issued that was issued 30 years earlier on 24th January 1986

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 27 Mar 2016 23:49

Here is another one with a different stamp from the same issue:

I don't know this new $1 stamp was cancelled with the fdi postmark with the 24c Australia Day stamp that was issued that was issued 34 years earlier on 20th January 1982

Rob1956 · Post by **Rob1956** » 02 Apr 2016 03:19

B.C.O.F. ½ roos. Positioned block of 4 (bottom right) showing a distinctive "colon" before the "J" in JAPAN on bottom left stamp.

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 23 Apr 2016 10:00

Here is one I picked up on Delcampe, an interesting one, as not only is it the "home post office" of the Brighton Philatelic Society, it had an unusual postmark for a time:

Above is our WCS fdc for the 1960 Melbourne Cup & below is a fdc for Ferdinand Von Mueller from 1948, with the "reversed 'N' postmark"

PPA describes the canceller was incorrectly made as "Morth" instead of "North". As these metal cancellers took a long time to make, the first stroke down of the "M" was removed giving the appearance of a reversed "N".

Brad

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 25 May 2016 00:10

This pse for the Fourth World Bowling Championships at Frankston which ran from 16th January 1980 till 2nd February 1980 was issued on 16th January 1980:

However someone at the Frankston post office forgot to change the year when they postmarked this one 16th January 1979:

Brad

BigSaint · Post by **BigSaint** » 25 May 2016 01:20