My stampcatalogue

<body> <center><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica"><table width="75%" height="10%" border="5" align="center" valign="middle"> <tr> <td width="100%"><p align="center"><b><font face="Arial" size="5">WELCOME TO MY STAMP COLLECTION</font></b></td> </tr> </table> </font></center></div><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica"><p><br> <strong><font face="Arial"><font size="3">I</font><font size="2"> am a stamp collector.<br> Not a collector of expensive and rare stamps, the ones only crazy people can afford and buy. <br> I only collect inexpensive, easy-to-find stamps, which have one thing in common :<br> A stupid error in their design. <br> <img src="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/genpic/fig0001.jpg" alt="Six fingers*" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="20" vspace="20" width="324" height="211"> <img src="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/fid0002.jpg" alt="Detail" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="20" VSPACE="20" width="150" height="147"> It started more than twenty years ago : I was watching an old envelope, when suddenly my attention was caught by the stamp on it. I could not believe my eyes : THE MAN ON THE STAMP HAD SIX FINGERS ON HIS LEFT HAND ! <u>If you do not believe such stamps exist, look at the one it all started with ! </u><br> (Stamp issued by MONACO in 1947)<br> Since that day, it has become a bad habit : each time I look at a stamp, I check it for errors. And in more than 20 years, I have found and collected more than 1.500 stamps with at least one thing in common :<br> "the crazier the error, the more I like it" </font></font></strong></p><strong><p align="left"> <font face="Arial"><font size="2">In the next pages, I am proud to present you some examples of<br> MY CRAZY WORLD OF DESIGN ERRORS ON STAMPS </font></font></p> </strong><p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><strong>Make your choice :</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><strong><font size="3" face="Arial"><img src="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/fig1.gif" alt="*" width="28" height="28"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/page301a.htm">1-12</a> <img src="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/fig1.gif" alt="*"> <a href="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/page313a.htm">13-24</a> <img src="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/fig1.gif" alt="*"><a href="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/page325a.htm">25-36</a> <img src="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/fig1.gif" alt="*"><a href="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/page337a.htm">37-48</a> <img src="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/fig1.gif" alt="*"><a href="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/page349a.htm">49-60</a> <img src="file:///C|/MyWebs/edelper/stampgen/fig1.gif" alt="*" width="28" height="28"><br> </font><font size="3" face="Arial"><br> </font><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://dell/ED/public_html/index.html">Back to my Homepage</a> </font></strong></p> </body>