http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398901,00.html

oops--post office releases stamp showing the US flag with 14 stripes!

Well, they probably released way too many for it to become as valuable as the famous upside-down airplane stamp, but this 42-cent stamp might be worth a good...43 cents in 10 years!

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Yeah! because every one will be buying them, thinking they will be worth more.

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Don't get me started on the US Postal Service. This is the least of their problems, which is why I stopped stamp collecting about 10 years ago.

There was a stamp, I want to say in 60s, but I don't remember the details, that while it was being produced, a collector found an example of an incorrectly printed one (like one color upside down). The Post Office then deliberately printed a large quantity of incorrect stamps, just to drive down the value of the original single mistake.

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Our post office, some years back, printed some WWII commemorative stamps, some featuring U.S. flags.

They had the modern star layout, not the then rectangular layout (states have been added, eh?).

Nobody I talked to cared a bit, so I didn't buy any - but for a few minutes I did dream of buying as many as I could, publicising it, then making $$$'s. Sigh.

Odd stuff does happen. Also a few years ago they printed a stamp showing a baby in a car seat - but with the seat facing forward not back. Given the "child friendly" theme of the series the stamp was in, it was seen as a big blunder and people DID make money off the stamps. (Many were recalled, so the "rarity" was there...)

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That quarter-moon is awfully high in the sky if this stamp is supposed to be a distinct time from sunset.

Ah, baloney. That extra stripe has shading just like all the other stripes.

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Is "high in the sky" a way of saying it's turned as if the sun is higher than the moon, which can't happen at night when it's supposedly already set?

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"High in the sky" is saying it's turned like it's close to the meridian, which a first-quarter moon is at sunset. That assumes that the picture isn't tilted, of course, but the flag seems to back that assumption.