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Curtis Jenny 'invert'
Another 'mistake'
Yet another 'mistake' |
INVERTED ERRORS ~ Deliberate or not? I love stamp errors. Over the years, I have made a study of traditional and modern printing processes, and can not understand how such flaws as inverted flaws, come about by accident! The most famous inverted flaw is the USA 24 cent Curtis Jenny. It does not bare investigation. The 'error' that produced the Inverted Jenny was made when the red-frame printings were coming out of the press. A printer may simply have handled one of the sheets to check for ink quality and then laid it onto the stack of other sheets; not upside down as some experts claim - otherwise the Jenny would have been printed over the gummed side! This can be seen when inspecting the vignet sheets selvedge. In reality the Curtis Jenny is not upside down; it is the vignet frame that is upside down! Rotated a full 90 degrees in relation to the rest of the stack. Naturally, it is said by experts, the Bureau of Printing and Engraving may have produced a few inverts in the shop, so this could only have been deliberate. Whatever the case, the red-frame sheet was fed into the blue-vignette press rotated so that the Curtus Jenny could be seen upside-down. As far as we know, it only happened to one sheet; for no other Inverted Jenny sheet was ever found. A few more were likely done; but these mis-printed stamps were caught by inspectors and discarded as 'printer's waste.' When such stamps are sold over the counter at a Post Office, then they become errors. A small difference that means a lot. Only a few have ever entered the mail stream. |
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must be called into question the frequency of inverted flaws among
the postal authorities of the world. It seems these accidents have
not only been put aside, but ferreted out of the printers shop onto
dealers. Perhaps they wereinvented by prudent design. Nonetheless,
deliberate or not, they are very collectable. In digital printing,
a single pass produces two or more multi-colors; where the plate is
digital, such rotations may happen as a rotation during setting up
of the sheet-plate in the computer; but it would be difficult to go
undetected. Where two passes go through the printer off the digital-plate,
an invert could ocurr, however, most two color stamps are printed
in one pass today through all the colors steps, so such a flaw would
have to be deliberate. Of course, a stamp may still be printed in
two steps, like the Jenny; but it is unlikely such an error could
occur by mistake, let alone miss detection! The Rural America stamp
is a good example of the full color scene being printed first through
all it's color steps. Then later the words and train over printed
in black.There are flaws that can happen 'naturally'; but suspician
of printing manipulation must be suspected in the case of the Rural
America Stamp.I don't believe this type of flaw can occur unless deliberate.
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