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ISSUE 175 - July 4, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine

1918 in Mekeel’s:   
The Five Cent U.S. Error

by R. McP. Cabeen
(From Mekeel's Weekly, May 18, 1918 with images added)

1916-17
flat plate perf 10 5¢ in a double error block of 12Foreword
Among the numerous philatelic errors which have been issued since the introduction of postage stamps, perhaps none has created greater surprise and encouraged more thorough search than have the misplaced 5 cent designs in Plate 7942 of the current 2 cent value.

I believe this group of errors to be the most startling of any so far produced, for it would not seem possible to enter an incorrect value design in . . .

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