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Bidboard # 1935
Lot # 135
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $250.00
Current Bid: $280
Canada # CP19/CP33 ERROR STRIPS

mint quartet of genuine error strips of the bug-laden kiosk computer generated postage distributed in the single Vancouver postal outlet that hosted the machines. The idea behind the program was to allow Canada Post clients to produce from the kiosk the rates that they needed in small quantities (strips of 5). Each stamp featured a landscape painting by one of five Canadian artists, including members of the renowned Group of Seven and their contemporaries. All five paintings are from the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The stamps were designed by Stephane Huot and printed on Avery Dennison Paper. The denomination and numeric code were printed by direct thermal print. The stamps are available in 4 denominations: Permanent (Domestic), US rate $1.20, Oversize rate $1.80, and International rate $2.50. Each of the strips in this lot is "overlength" (one Permanent rate and one $1.20 rate are in strips of 8, plus a strip of 6 of another Permanent rate as well as a 5¼ stamp length $1.80 strip with an additional trimmed extra). As well as being overlength, the 5¼ stamp $1.80 strip has badly mis-aligned printing, with one stamp missing the 14 digit code, another missing the $1.80 and a third stamp with a compressed double $1.80! The strip of 6 Permanent stamps is missing the computer-generated printing completely on the second stamp from the bottom of the strip. Other error strips (most much less impressive than these) from this series occasionally appear online at crazy prices. These are "must-have" items for any serious modern error collector and are impossible for fake. Estimate =