When The Modern Shift Hits The Fan

eyeonwall that wildlife conservation is fantastic!

I don't have the block for this, but really like:

Just got this one. Your drunk Uncle Sam, or at least the inspector was. Colors shifted, miscut and die cuts shifted. It was recently in Linn's.

Miss Liberty has her "ups and downs."

Bookbndrbob - that is a perforation shift.
It's a different type of shift error (vs color misregistrations), and is typically a more common occurrence. Cool though.

Eyeonwall - awesome! I think that one is going to be sought after over time.
I missed the article in Linn's...

Or a slightly different perspective of ink registration ... tagging shift errors on block-tagged stamps:

Christmas 1968, Scott 1363. Tagging shifted upward by about 1/4 inch. Same item in normal light and short-wave UV.



Tagging shifted half a stamp to the left. The left column shows a perfectly "split tagging", while the right column shows only half tagging. Portion of a used 2x5 plate strip in normal light and short-wave UV.



Christmas 1969, Scott 1384. Top row with normal and quadruple-split tagging. Bottom row with horizontal or vertical shifts to produce split tagging. Again, normal and UV light.

It's a good question what happened to quality control? The same issue applies to the service we receive from mail delivery. Just got a Christmas card yesterday that was mailed December 11 from California. Lately I see items delivered to the wrong state, not even close. It reminds me of when I moved to Bosnia (Sarajevo) and some of my things were "Shanghaied to Shanghai" - literally someone sent those things an extra how many ever miles before they finally arrived weeks later.

I sell cremation urns and I had one that got shipped all the way to Australia and then redirected to the proper address in Hawaii! 4 weeks later. no explanation from USPS. This is quite common. I have one right now going to Canada from Chicago and it is sitting in the Miami postal facility for 3 weeks. Why did this go south to Florida to ship north??

It went to Florida because of a hardware problem on the package sorter. The maintenance of all the mail equipment has been lacking due to people out with Covid quarantines.

Recent add, different shift from eyeonwall

Picked this one up at the APS show in Chicago. Engraved black shifted up courtesy of a pre-print paper fold. Unfortunately whoever opened up the fold created a tear along the fold below the 8c of the lower right stamp, but it is still quite unusual.

re: Tea Party block
The perforations are correct, so the unfolding happened during production - between and printing and the perforating stages, rather than post-sale damage by a collector.

JB - you are of course correct, and as such the damage is less troubling.

This one isn't quite so modern (it came from a block I bought earlier this year)



The eagle has landed.

These are all fantastic, I just wish that I could find one!