Europa? Not Europa?

[youpiao]

Does anyone have a clue as to why Scott does not identify this pair of Sp. Andorran stamps as being a Europa issue? I suppose it could simply be an oversight, but, one would think they’d catch this omission and correct it after 46 years.

[khj]

That's typical Scott. I've said this before -- if there's one thing Scott is consistent at, it's being inconsistent.

If you look at the Europa listings: sometimes Scott puts it in the listing header in bold, sometimes Scott just puts "Europa:" in the design description listing, sometimes Scott just puts "Design:" or nothing at all.

There are many legacy errors that still remain in the Scott catalogs. Some are just omissions/inconsistencies like the one you mentioned. Some are typos or outright incorrect info. Other errors get introduced when Scott does numbering changes or edit a listing. I remember one year, one or two of the modern US listings simply disappeared. Amos was notified of the error, and they corrected it in a later print run and also offered to mail anyone a corrected page. My guess is the listings disappeared as they were putting in the embedded advertising layout.

I've actually started marking/correcting the errors in my digitized Scott, by using the Adobe highlight/note function.

[youpiao]

Thanks, k.