ISSUE 178 - October 3, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
1918 in Mekeel’s:
A Plate Variety of the 5 Cent Walloon
by E. J. Newcomer
(From Mekeel's Weekly, March 16, 1925 with color images added)
A defect occurs in some of the 5c Huguenot-Walloon stamps that has created a great deal of interest. This is found in most of the stamps of the two upper panes of plate number 15,-754. It has been variously referred to as an "error", a "die shift", and a "double transfer", none of which appellations is correct, and it has been advertised as a "rarity" at a considerable premium.
I have studied this defect rather carefully with a binocular microscope, and I have come to the conclustion that it was produced by a . . .
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