Showing posts with label stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stamps. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Faulty U.S. Stamp


NEW YORK — The devil, as they say, is in the details.

So when an astute stamp collector recently discovered that one of the Old Glorys in the U.S. Postal Service's "Flags 24/7" series appears to have 14 stripes, it was bound to send a wave of excitement through the philatelic community.

"Is there any icon better-known to Americans than their own flag?" said Fred Baumann, a spokesman for the American Philatelic Society. "This is something somebody should have caught along the way."

Good thing only 3.75 BILLION of these have been made!