Postmark Finds: Inverted Digits

I have listed hundreds of lots of stamps on eBay and Hipstamp in the last 20+ years made up of whole stock pages full of "Postmark Picks."  So, a page of 40 to 60 nice clear town/date cancels from Ireland or Botswana or wherever.  I have been going through them and looking at them in more detail, and I never get tired of the variety of postmark layouts and designs, and the goofs.

In the last thousand cancels I copied to their own files, I found a few where one or more digits are inverted.  It's not always clear how this could have happened in each case.  Sometimes, the dates are on a roller of some kind, so you just roll over to the next date with your thumb, which can leave the numbers in between today and tomorrow.  Sometimes, they are flat handstamps where the characters are more freely added and arranged.  Whatever the case, here are some I found interesting:

Thatcher,AZ with the whole year (1933) flipped


Tombstone, AZ with the year 1939 flipped


Woodbury NJ with "1904" both inverted and partially doubled


Bucuresti, Romania where the year is fine, but the month and day are flipped


As a bit of miscellany, here is one from Tucson, AZ with the day of the month missing entirely


I know I have a lot more of these on file.  I will try to post more or add more "Postmark Finds" as I see other groups to chat about.




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