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Machin missing value error emerges - 2005

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The first ever missing value error in the 36-year history of the British Machin series has recently cropped up via a missing £ sign on the recently issued high value £2.00 slate blue definitive. The £2.00 value along with new £1.50, £3.00 and £5.00 Machins were gravure printed by De La Rue using new cylinders produced to work with its ATN press at Byfleet but something appears to have gone awry during the production process.

Initially Royal Mail said that it had no plans to withdraw the error but it has recently switched policy on this and has withdrawn all stamps apart from those which are already in British post offices.

The faulty stamps are found on the no dot sheets immediately adjacent to the D1 cylinder number. One theory now being put forward about the error is that an old-style High Wycombe (where the stamps used to be printed prior to 2002 buy-out of Questa by De La Rue) cylinder number was deleted from the computer and a new Byfleet cylinder number inserted.

The error is believed to have happened on around 17,500 sheets and as many as 8,000 of these are believed to be in circulation, so Machin collectors shouldnt pay more than between £25 to £50 for a cylinder block with the error.

Mark Steele.



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