Postage Stamp Mix-Up

[jlawrence01]

This happens all of the time.

Two examples in the US:

In 2015 a United States Postal Service stamp was issued commemorating Maya Angelou with the Joan Walsh Anglund quote "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song", though the stamp mistakenly attributes the quote to Angelou.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cul...mp-of-approval

The 1932 Arbor Day stamp featured a photograph of the two living children of the Director of Engraving and Printing in violation of post office policies.

https://arago.si.edu/category_2033011.html


This also happens overseas and is a frequent topic of discussion in Linn's Stamp News:

https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps...rket-tips.html

https://www.irishexaminer.com/irelan...ps-257081.html

https://canadianstampnews.com/canada...vers-booklets/

http://commonwealthstampsopinion.blo...withdrawn.html

https://www.unisquare.com/sale/withd...union-1762724/

[Javacoffee]

I may be completely out of line in my thought process, but I think the post office purposely creates error stamps now and then just to keep the public interested in stamp collection.

[cebuan]

Jeez, who cares? If the stamp elicits the correct mood, what does it matter exactly what the original detail was. Say the US wants to make a set featuring seashells. The find a photo of perfect specimen, and submit it to the artist to use as a model for the design. But it turns out that the original was collected on a beach in Mexico. OMG, the end of the world, start firing the people to blame and recall the stamp.