Segal - EFOs on U.S. Stamps


EFOCC Home Page The EFO Collector Auction Club Business Honor Roll Membership Buyers & Sellers of EFO Material	Errors, Freaks & Oddities on U. S. Stamps Question Marks in Philately Dr. Stanley B. Segal The EFOCC is pleased to present the philatelic community a reprint of Dr. Stanley Segal's work, Errors, Freaks & Oddities on U. S. Stamps. When it was published in 1979, it was a ground-breaking achievement, one of the first works focusing on EFOs, and helped place EFO collecting into the mainstream of philately. You can read this book in one of two ways. You can view the pages online by clicking on the items in the table of contents shown below to see the related pages. Once you are on a content page, you can move from one page to another by clicking with your mouse on the arrows under the pages. You can also download the complete book onto your computer by clicking on the link below. If you do that you need also the PDF Viewer from Adobe software (likely already installed on your computer). Also note that the file is fairly large, and it might take a while to download to your computer, in particular if you are using a slow (dial-up) connection. Click here view book as PDF. The reprinted text and/or images have been taken from "Errors, Freaks and Oddities on U.S. Stamps - Questions Marks in Philately" by Dr. Stanley Segal. The text or images from the book reproduced on this website and in the PDF are the copyrighted property of United States Stamp Society and any reproduction of the text and/or images is not permitted without written consent of the United States Stamp Society. The EFOCC thanks the United States Stamp Society for permission to present Dr. Segal's book on this site. Cover Preface Inverts 1869 Issue - Proofs Inverted Centers Pan-American Inverts Misperforations Change-of-Design Misperforations Horizontal, Vertical, Two-Way Misperforations Diagonal Misperforations Cross-Gutter Misperforations Margin Copies Wide and Narrow Misperfs Crazy Perfs Double Perfs Imperforates 19^th Century Single Stamp Imperforates 1869 - 15¢ Reissue Imperforate Horizontally 1893 Columbian Series - Imperforate 2¢ Columbian - Imperforate Bureau Issue of 1895 - Imperforate 8¢ Trans-Mississippi 2¢ Louisiana Purchase 1904 The Electric Eye Perforator and Its Aberrations Part Perfs Imperforate Between Blind Perfs Horizontal Imperf, Vertical Imperf, Completely Imperforate Completely Imperforate Imperforate Between Imperforate Coils Combination Perforating Errors Misperfed Coils Imperforate Booklets Misregistrations Misfeeds, Wet Printing Shrinkage Color Errors Smeared and Dry Printings Stamps Printed in the Wrong Color Missing Colors Colors Reversed Double Sheeting Dry Ink Well Improper Cylinder Adjustment Foldovers Printing Varieties Color Variations Shades Color Changelings Broken Inking-In Roller Solvent Inking Variety Offsets Double Prints Kiss Tagging Doubles Offset Doubling Phantom Plate Numbers Double Paper Splices Repairs Printer's Waste Wide Spacing of Overprints and Stretched Prints Constricted Overprints and Missing Overprints Postage Due Wide Spacings Gutter Snipes Production of Post Office Panes Foldover Gutter Snipes Accordion Fold Gutter Snipes Crazy Perf Gutter Pairs Favor Sheets Perforation Variety Gutter Snipes Interpane Misperf Gutter Snipe Walt Disney Commemmorative Stamp Production Major Disney Errors Disney Perforation Gutter Snipe Perforation Gutter Snipes - New Finds Preprinting Paper Creases Preprintig Creases on Multicolored Stamps Preprinting Paper Folds Unprinted Areas on Stamps INTERPHIL: Bicentennial Souvenir Sheets Bicentennial Souvenir Sheet Invert SIPEX Sheet Booklet Pane Production Goebel Bookforming Machine Miscut Booklets Imperf Between Misperfed Booklet Panes Plate Number Collecting - Background Notes Plate Number Coils Reconstructed Plate Numbers Presidential Series Coil Production Mis-Cut Coils 432-Subject Plate Coil - Imperforate, Miscut, Double Plate Number Production Techniques in the Manufacture of U. S. Stamps Giori Press Giori Press and Harris Press Combinations Nine-Color Huck Press Perforating Unit Huck Press Imperforate Between Huck Press Misregistrations Huck Press Misperfs Andreotti Press Andreotti Missing Colors Staircase Misregistration Andreotti Solvent Inking Varieties Christmas Stamps: Production The Question Mark References and Sources

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Errors, Freaks & Oddities on U. S. Stamps

Question Marks in Philately

Dr. Stanley B. Segal