It's 18 months since the King Charles definitives were issued, but as we know Royal Mail printers produced an enormous number of 2nd and 1st class Machin definitives such that they are still being sold now, and are certainly still being provided in the SwapOut scheme.
But there is still room for discoveries and I am indebted to CB for sending this picture of a massive shift of the iridescent layer on a 1st class booklet stamp. So large is the shift that it is impossible to establish whether this is from a book of 8 MEIL or book of four, MFIL.
UPDATE: Thanks to HJF & DG I can confirm that this is a MFIL/M22L stamp with barcode date 14.03.22 based on interpretation of the barcode.
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| 1st class Machin booklet stamp with 2mm left shift and slight downward shift of the iridescent printing. |
The email reminded me that I had been given an identical stamp (on cover) by a relative. Unfortunately neither example is postmarked so we don't know where the stamps were used.
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| Second example of a 1st class Machin booklet stamp with 2mm left shift and slight downward shift of the iridescent printing. |
If you do get stamped mail - and Christmas is coming - it's still worth looking for oddities like this. Whilst not valuable it is interesting, especially if you can include a photograph in your collection which shows the error more clearly.
I don't recall seeing anything as prominent as this on the barcoded stamps before.
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