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    Posted: 14 September 2024 at 01:05
One of my favourite stamps from the All Hallows Post Office is the Red Dead Letter Office stamp.
It was available from the FarFetchedPhilately Etsy shop in June 2020 in sheets of 12 stamps.

The central image has a varnish/glaze over it suggesting that you are lookng into a mirror and, instead of your own reflection, you see a skull looking back at you.

and, if you have one of these sheets, you will know that it was fairly easy to spot the Variant...
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row2col4 The skull peers out from the Right hand side of the mirror/frame instead of the Left
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You may also know that packets of a mixture of stamps were available from FarFetchedPhilately (in 2020,2023 and 2024) containing individual stamps from the All Hallows Post Office (including the Death of stamps, Grim reaper, Dead Letter, Halloween, Hand of Fate, and more recently "Batwoman" and Werewolf issues).
In amongst these I have found a further six variants of the Red Dead Letter stamp
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 Variant 2 has 2 skulls in the mirror 

Variant 3 has 3 skulls

Variant 4 also has 3 skulls but these are much fainter/harder to make out clearly

variant 5 has only one skull but this has been inverted and the text has been reflected

variant 6 has 2 inverted skulls

and variant 7 has 3 distinct inverted skulls

 Clearly there must be another sheet of stamps containing these variants.......
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From these 2020, 2023 and 2024 CBEs I think  I've managed to assemble 2/3 of the "unobtainable" Red Dead Letter stamp sheet


Looking at the selvage I can place four of the six new variants

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Variant 3 (3 distinct skulls) is at r3c4

Variant 4 (3 faint skulls) is at r1c1 and r1c4 

Variant 6 (2 skulls inverted) is at r2c4 

variant 7 (3 distinct skulls inverted) is at r3c1  


This second sheet must also contain Variant 1


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I have two examples of Variant 1 (Skull is on RHS of mirror) that have the selvage attached to show that they occupy r1c3 and r3c3 (Variant 1 on the original sheet is r2c4 so they can't be from that sheet)they have to be on this second sheet


My one example of Variant 2 and three  examples of variant 5 have no selvage 


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 but they must occupy at least two of the other 5 positions  (r1c2, r2c1, r2c2, r2c3 or r3c2)  


I also have 2 examples of variant1 with no selvage 

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 so they could be in these 5 positions (or they could be from r1c3 or r3c3 but have had their selvage removed) (or are from the original sheet that was available from FarFetchedPhilately's Etsy shop) 


So can anyone help with filling in the rest of the sheet ?
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Are they not a thing of beauty ?
(please excuse my poor scanning skills- it doesn't show the sheen/gloss over the central image of each stamp) 



These are the "Common" stamp and Variants 2 and 3
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and this is variant 4
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I shan't post lots of images of the next stamp...
Its again A Dead Letter stamp from the All Hallows Post Office from 2020. 
This time, the frame is a rather fetching yellow& brown. 
And (unlike the Red frame example) the sheet is still available from the FarFetchedPhilately Etsy shop.

I was rather disappointed (back in 2020) that there appeared to be only one variant for this stamp.
and again it should be easily spotted if you look at image of the sheet of stamps for sale on Etsy.

BUT...
in the New for 2024 ! Mixed bag of Halloween stamps I've found two more variants. and a "colour variation" (which might not be deliberate but I think it still counts as a "variant")

Has anyone found these new variants ? Were they available before 2024 ? Am I talking to myself? 
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 I won't say what the two new variants are to give others a chance to discover them for themselves. Maybe there's more than 2 ? They are not on the sheet - but are in the Mived Bags of Halloween stamps.

But I will post a picture of the Variant that's been on the sheet since 2020.
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Wonderful stuff
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The 2020 Death duty stamps are also available at the FarFetchedPhilately Etsy shop.
(but, on 17 Sept 2024, only 7 sheets are left) 

The Variant is a little harder to spot this time but shows what appears to be an "overprint" (but I'm not confident about terms used by stamp collectors so don't all shout at me if I'm using the wrong word)

It gives the appearance that someone has used a rubber stamp to print the word OVERDUE over the Death Duty stamp itself. And it's hard to make out as if the rubber-stamp hasn't been inked properly. Don't you love it ? 
Art imitating Life.
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Did I forget to mention there are four more variants of the Death duty stamp ?

All are overprints

but they are not on the sheet they are (you guessed it) in the mixed bags of Halloween stamps
They are beautiful but.... (you've guessed it again) I won't share pictures of them yet, to give some of you the chance of discovering them for yourselves.
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