The year 2000 brought collectors an extraordinary treat: World Stamp Expo opened in Anaheim on July 7th with a space exploration theme that pushed the boundaries of stamp design. For the first time ever, the U.S. Postal Service released America's first hologram stamp, first round stamp, first round souvenir sheet, and first 5-sided stamps – all at once.

Well, some sheets came through with the holograms applied wrong…

Scott #3410g, the $1 "Exploring the Solar System" sheet with five pentagon-shaped stamps - these stamps don't have holograms. But this sheet has a hologram foil from the "Escaping the Gravity of Earth" sheet stuck at the top. A hologram from a completely different sheet, applied to a sheet that shouldn't have any hologram at all.

After the Expo, a few collectors reported finding hologram placement errors, but not many. Don Sundman kept this one in his personal collection for years and recently decided to make it available so other collectors could enjoy it. This error doesn’t come to market often. The number out there has to be incredibly low.

This error gives you a window into the production challenges of working with hologram stamps for the first time – you can see where things went wrong when they were figuring out the process.

Secure this error in your collection today while still available! Once it’s gone, it is unlikely we'll be able to offer again.

The year 2000 brought collectors an extraordinary treat: World Stamp Expo opened in Anaheim on July 7th with a space exploration theme that pushed the boundaries of stamp design. For the first time ever, the U.S. Postal Service released America's first hologram stamp, first round stamp, first round souvenir sheet, and first 5-sided stamps – all at once.

Well, some sheets came through with the holograms applied wrong…

Scott #3410g, the $1 "Exploring the Solar System" sheet with five pentagon-shaped stamps - these stamps don't have holograms. But this sheet has a hologram foil from the "Escaping the Gravity of Earth" sheet stuck at the top. A hologram from a completely different sheet, applied to a sheet that shouldn't have any hologram at all.

After the Expo, a few collectors reported finding hologram placement errors, but not many. Don Sundman kept this one in his personal collection for years and recently decided to make it available so other collectors could enjoy it. This error doesn’t come to market often. The number out there has to be incredibly low.

This error gives you a window into the production challenges of working with hologram stamps for the first time – you can see where things went wrong when they were figuring out the process.

Secure this error in your collection today while still available! Once it’s gone, it is unlikely we'll be able to offer again.