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It's time to end your denial.Christmas is coming. As a philatelist you can celebrate it with something different. Something rare. Something only true connoisseurs will appreciate.These are unique items for your GB collection. The most important stamp issue of every year. Gone wrong.5 Christmas errors to make your collection stand out.

Great Britain 1972 3p Christmas error, SG914e

A minutely detailed and highly sought after error in an iconic Christmas issue. Look closely at the stamp on the left. It got just one pass of gold during the printing process.It's hard to spot the detail that has been left out as a result. But we confirm it with a British Philatelic Association Certificate of Authenticity. The bible of philatelic errors, Pierron, says there are only around 30 of these stamps in this mint condition.We'll send you a perfect stamp to file alongside your extraordinarily rare Christmas error. 

Another very technical error to delight the specialist. A flipped sheet of paper gives us a block of 8 stamps "printed on the gummed side". The traffic light and the block's marginal position adds extra cachet to this example. 

You could own 8 in one swoop today. 

Great Britain 1968 4d Christmas imprimaturs, SG775var

This is a genuine museum piece once in the British Postal Museum Archive, with the stamp to prove it. A variety rather than an error, these imprimaturs (first prints) have retouched dapples on the rocking horse. This stamp is catalogued by Stanley Gibbons in their GB Specialised Catalogue No: W142f. A unique item.And what an addition to your collection: surely one of the most charming and popular GB Christmas stamps, classified uncirculated mint. 

Look at the contrasting traffic lights on these sheets for the clearest illustration of this error. No green. Just 120 examples of this stamp in mint condition are recorded. Here you can snap up 8. They're yours now: never mounted, mint, in a sought-after marginal block, and with a perfect sheet to illuminate the omission. The designer of these stamps could bring his own experience of flight to the story of Jesus's birth. Fritz Wegner was an Austrian Jew who fled the Nazis to Britain in 1938 after his schoolboy cartoon of Hitler got him into trouble. This very scarce, exhibition-quality example of his work is a wonderful Christmas rarity.

Great Britain 1978 9p Christmas error, SG1072a

The perforations are clearly missing from the bottom 2 pairs of this sheet from 1978. That's the only flaw in a very rare vertical block in "very fine, unmounted mint" condition with full original gum. It's a very rare error. Pierron says just 15 mint pairs have been identified. There is extra interest in the block, as the error can be seen creeping down the page, with a semi-imperforate pair above the standout error. 

It's a detail every stamp lover appreciates. 

Buy with no risk

Christmas stamps are special.Their release is the one date in the stamp calendar that everyone notices. Their design is much discussed. This set gives us a lovely cross-section of mid-to-late 20th century British stamp design. With the addition of extraordinary errors and variants that make each stamp a once-in-a-lifetime find for the dedicated collector. 

If you're the collector who gets to them first. 

And we know stamp buyers - and their friends and families - are looking for appropriate buys right now.

And what a Christmas gift any of these items would make.

And it comes with no risk. You are backed with our own, certificated, money-back authenticity guarantee.And a 28-day, money back returns period - no questions asked. If you'd like to secure one of these rare Christmas gems then: 

These items will be on the radar of discerning buyers we know are reading this mail.And once gone, many will not come to market again for many years. 

So I look forward to hearing from you.Until next time,Paul Fraser.

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