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2½d on 9d QV Sideface - printing flaws, etc.

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 11:13 am
by Ross Ewington
SG 168b (i.e. deep blue, perf. 11½) with much of the top of the '2' absent and a tiny bit of the '1' in '½'

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I assume that this flaw results from a small piece of foreign matter such as a tiny piece of paper being
present on the sheet of stamps when the overprinting was undertaken.