Sometime between October 22, 1929 and November 1, 1929, the Security Printing Press of Nasik, India produced a series of airmail stamps to be used on letter mail to England. These were supposedly first postally used November 12, 1929, although letters to England, dated October 22, 1929 are extant.
The entire series of oblong stamps, designed by R. Grant, was typographed on watermarked single-star paper in sheets of 144, which 12 rows of 12 stamps in each row with perforation 14. A picture of a de Havilland Hercules biplane flying over a lake, with palm trees at the left bank, is the central design. The first five stamps were 3,4,6,8 and 12 Anna denominations. The 2 Anna value was added December 2, 1929, when the airline was extended to Delhi.
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The Double Geneva is a rare Swiss stamp that was issued by the City of Geneva in 1843, making it the second-oldest stamp of the European continent after the Zurich.
The “Double Geneva,” consisted of a pair of stamps printed in black on yellow-green paper. Each stamp bared the city’s arms, and the inscription “Poste de Genéve” at the top and “Port local” at the bottom. An additional inscription, “10 PORT CANTONAL Cent” was printed on the top of each pair. Customers could cut out a single stamp to pay the intra-commune rate, or keep the pair together to pay the inter-commune rate.
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Many of the items listed as freaks are off-center perforations, where the perforation is so far off center as to cut right through the center of the stamp or, in many cases, cut off one portion of the stamp, placing that portion of the stamp above or below it, or perhaps to the side. Sometimes, in multiple-color printings, one color is shifted to a degree that it makes a strange design on the stamp instead of the intended impression.
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Overprints are letters, numbers, symbols or pictures stamped or printed on postage stamps after completion of the original printing procedure. A surcharge is a type of overprint that raises or lowers the denomination, or face value of a stamp.
Overprints often consist of slogans concerning current events. The slogans advertise and promote public attention toward social or political causes or problems. Overprints are also used to commemorate historical events they are also used to change one kind of stamp into another. For example, via an overprint, a revenue stamp might become a postage due stamp. Overprints have also been used to signify a change of government, different from that on the original stamp, when a change has taken place in a country’s dominion.
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Before the discovery of Australia, it was believed that a black swan was impossible. However, after people discovered the existence of black swans in Australia, it soon became the symbol of the continent.
In 1854, Western Australia issued its first stamps, featuring the colony symbol, the Black Swan, as did all WA stamps until 1902. While 1d black was engraved in Britain by Perkins Bacon, other values, including the 4d blue, were produced by Horace Samson in Perth using lithography, and with various settings around the design for each swan value.
The Inverted Swan, a 4-pence blue postage stamp issued in 1855 by Western Australia, was one of the world’s first invert errors. Technically, it is a “frame invert”.
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The first stamp produced by Sweden in 1855 was normally printed in a blue-green color; however this rare stamp was mistakenly printed in a yellow orange shade. The normal three skilling stamp printed in Sweden is colored green while the eight skilling stamp was printed in yellow. However, due to an unknown error (but most likely the three skilling plate was accidently replaced by an eight skilling one), the three skilling stamp was printed in yellow, creating the Treskilling Yellow Stamp. The number of stamps printed in the wrong color is unknown.
In 1886 A 14-year-old school boy named Georg Wilhelm Baeckman discovered the stamp among his grandmother’s possessions and sold it to a dealer for the then-lofty price of 7 kronor. The stamp traded hands several times over the next decade, fetching ever higher prices and inspiring collectors to search for more Treskilling Yellows. But no other was ever found.
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In 1847, the British Colony of Mauritius issued one penny and Two Penny stamps. As postage stamps were recently invented for postal use, the new governor’s wife wished to use them on her invitations to the inaugural ball. This design was created by Joseph O. Barnard (1816-1865) local jeweler, whose initials are engraved on the neck of the queen (as ‘J.B’) on Post Office Mauritius Stamps. The jeweler was placed under great pressure to produce the plates for immediate usage. Working late into the night, without experience and being rushed by the governor’ wife, the engraver made a serious mistake not noted until the proofing of the first few sheets. The jeweler erroneously engraved the words ‘Post Office’ instead of the words ‘Post Paid’ upon the stamp. These Mauritius issues feature an image of Queen Victoria and the inscription “Post Office” along the left edge. A copper plate of 3.25 inches by 2.5 inches was used to engrave the design.
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