Advanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 20 image entries Contest Directions:
[ Flori-duh voters strike again. An absentee ballot was mailed with
a rare stamp worth as much as $200,000 - the famous
"Inverted Jenny" - but the vote did not count as there was no name on
the envelope. ]
In a related story, famous stamp collector from Florida misses one of
his most valued stamps after he asked his wife to mail an absentee
ballot. Election after election, Florida voters just keep getting
confused about this voting thing, but you can't blame them - it takes
time for half a million Cubans to Americanize.
In this contest you are asked to make stamps depicting any person or event in the past 20 years (till today). The stamps will have to have some error or
imperfection (design error, print error, spelling error, etc.) which
will make these stamps a rarity in the years to come. Giving the
stamps an old worn-out look is a plus.
[ browse best gallery pictures ] Tags: wrongstamps Jackpot: 1st place: $20, 2nd place: $12 , 3rd place: $8 Started: 11/12/2006 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 11/14/2006 6:00:00 AM
This contest is fueled by the following news:
During the recent elections in the United States, an absentee ballot was mailed into the Broward County, Florida, election office -- using a very rare stamp. The stamp may be worth as much as $200,000 (although the face value of the stamp is 24 cents). Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom was the person who noticed the stamp initially. There was no name or return address on the envelope containing the pricy postage. The stamp is known as the "Inverted Jenny" because it was printed in error with a World War I era plane being included on the stamp ... up side down. Because the stamp was used to mail the ballot, it was cancelled ... which will reduce its value. The stamp now likely will sell for somewhere between $20,000 and $100,000 rather than $200,000. There are only 100 such stamps in stamp collections anywhere else in the world.
With the Clinton commemorative stamp, some wise guy in the printing press got away with sending out thousands of this version before it was caught and the spelling error corrected...
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