551. Doctor Blade Flaws
As stamp printing methods progressed, so did the type of flaws that appeared on stamps. In
photogravure printing the most noticeable flaws occur when specks of dust or grit becomes
lo...
553. Frama Labels Frama labels were basically an experiment by the post office to find a way of providing
valid postage labels without using existing stamps. The idea was that the machine could
dispense ...
554. 2nd Class Booklet Forgery This forgery was interesting in the fact that it was never intended that the public
would get their hands on these forged booklets. It appears that the forger aimed the
booklets at the philatelic world, where he knew collectors would be all too w...
555. 24p Machin Forgery In the late 1980’s, when stamps started to be sold in retail outlets other than post
offices, the scope for forgers to produce sta...
556. Training Stamps These stamps were intended primarily for training of post office workers. They were known to have been used as far back as the 1860’s. These stamps were made postally invalid by applying th...
557. Test Stamps – “Poached Eggs.” The British Post office soon realised that it would be a good business move to allow the general public to purchase stamps in places other than post offices. There were many objections to o...
558. Missing Colours This is an area of interest to a lot of collectors, and happens when the stamp sheets fail to make it through the entire printing process. The sheets might be passed through seven different inking plates and if one has “run dry” or simply stopped wor...
559. Liberation Of The Channel Islands The Channel Islands lie off the coast of Northern France near to Cherbourg. They were the only part of the United Kingdom officially occupied by Germany during the Second World War.
560. German War Propaganda Issues During the second world war, both Britain and Germany employed many propaganda stunts. Britain “unofficially” produced bogus German stamps, showing a portrait of Himmler instead of Hitler. ...
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As stamp printing methods progressed, so did the type of flaws that appeared on 
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