Some people suggested that the purchaser had interefered with the machine or that the long strips were produced by collusion with Royal Mail staff at the time. A video has now been loaded on YouTube showing the actual purchase at Stampex, and this is now embedded in the original post - see link above. Proof indeed that these were genuine errors.
UPDATE 9 January: It was not only at Stampex and BPMA that the long strip appeared. Frank has sent this picture of one that he obtained from the Camden Market Christmas Shop:
I am SO so glad that I didn't venture down the avenue of 'Post and Go' or 'Fast Stamps' (whatever)! I felt at the time that it was too open to the possibility of corruption and abuse and here we are having to PROVE that these are genuine (errors), see what I mean? What is the facination? Pray tell!
ReplyDeleteATM philately has been well established for decades on a global scale. These are/will be catalogued, bought/sold and collected. But like anything in philately - we can all choose what we collect - it's the variety that makes it endlessly fascinating - IMO. Vive La Difference!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, not only are they already catalogued by Gibbons, at a very basic level, but Michel produced a worldwide catalogue of PO computer-vended postage or ATM-Marken of all sorts.
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