Catalogue of Errors on U.S. Postage Stamps (Scott Catalogue of Errors on Us Postage Stamps)

Collectors will reach for this must-have volume to identify major production errors, defects, fakes, and oddities in U.S. postage stamps. This hobby standard contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on these collectible stamps that can be worth up to thousands of dollars. Issues produced from 1857 to 2002 are covered in detail. Listings contain quantities known, fakes and forgery warnings, condition, defects, variations, and photographs and are organised according to the type of error. Each error is thoroughly defined to help collectors expand their knowledge of the hobby. A special section on freaks, oddities, and other unusual stamps explains the collectibility and value of foldovers, miscuts, colour shifts, gutter pairs, gutter snipes, open creases, and blank stamps.