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Missing Bridge Error:
Shortly after the Canal Zone philatelic agency realized that some stamps had no silver bridge, Boston stamp dealer H.E. Harris inquired about a pane he had bought. H.E. Harris filed a preliminary injunction to prevent the announced deliberate reprinting of the missing bridge stamps, similar to the reprinting of the Dag Hammarskjold inverted color error ordered by the U.S. Post Office Department earlier that year. Following lengthy litigation, the agreement not to reproduce intentionally the error forever changed the landscape of philately and ensured that the upper right sheet retained value as a great philatelic rarity. |