Stamp 1338A

[pdv006]

Good eevening,

Can anyone tell me if the white house in the stamp is green and blue. I found a couple that is showing both left and right side are green and the middle is blue. Can anyone confirm this?

[angore]

You are likely seeing color bleeding from the green on sides and blue behind. It picks up a tint.

[pdv006]

Would it just bleed on the outline? I am also seeing it on the flag pole?

[khj]

Hello pdv006, and welcome to Stamp Bears!

That stamp was printed with the Huck Press, which is notorious for color bleed-outs. So it is not unusual to find small sections of wrong color or mixed color near the edges of specific illustration elements. You might also find blue color bleeding into the red stripes of the flag.

The Huck Press was a press introduced in the late 1960s intended to facilitate printings of more than 2 colors. It was not really designed for rigorous printing clarity. The upkeep became so problematic, that it was only used for extremely large press runs (Christmas issues, and then later only first-class mail basic rate stamps). It got so bad, they quit using the press after less than dozen stamps (my upper limit estimate, I didn't really count).

Color mixing/bleed-outs are one of the common characteristics of stamps printed by the Huck Press.

Please take time to make an introductory thread on the Introductions Board and tell us a little about yourself.

k

[khj]

Here are some examples, where I have circled the "bleed-outs" on the stamps.