Sultanate of Anjouan 1912 error stamps 5c on 15c blue, 3 diff. rare varieties

Description

1892 - 1907 French Navigation and Commerce Colonial Post Issue Surcharged . . .
1912 Sultanat D'Anjouan
(Sultanate of Anjouan)
Three different unlisted 5c on 15c blue errors
Rare varieties of Scott #22, mint with original gum
Note:
The scans of Reverse Sides of Stamps show the printing flaws
where the paper folded to create the errors during the overprinting.
Anjouan is now the easternmost Autonomous Island of the Union of the Comoros located in the Indian Ocean at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel off the east coast of Africa.
Here we have three different 1912 red "05" (5c) surcharge errors on the blue 15c 1892-1907 Anjouan French Navigation and Commerce Colonial Post issue. These three surcharge errors are unlisted varieties of Scott #22, mint with original gum. probably unique.
The surcharges on the pair are misaligned and printed at an angle shifting 25 to 35 degrees up starting at the left. A closer look at the pair shows multiple surcharge impressions on each stamp. The heaviest of the three surcharge impressions on the left stamp of the pair has the lower left of the "0" in the "05" surcharge distinctly cut off at an angel. From the scan of the back of the pair, we can clearly see the paper was jammed and folded during the printing the surcharge. That caused the "0" to be cut off at is bottom left and other errors to the sheet.
The stamp on the right side of the pair when viewed from the front, shows at its top a double impression of the "05" surcharge with a small part of the top right of the "5" going beyond the edge of the stamp, with a pickup of the top part of the "05" at the bottom right corner of the stamp from the misplaced surcharging of the stamp below on the sheet. The perforations between the stamps of the pair are in alignment and show a trace of the red surcharge, but appear to have been somewhat separated in the jam or fold in the printing the misaligned surcharge (the sheets had already been perforated for prior use before the surcharge was printed on them)
The single stamp at first glance may not look like it has been surcharged at all. A closer look at its upper left quadrant shows a trace line of red ink where its paper was also folded during the over-printing of the surcharge. Printed primarily on the second perforation from the top left is a tiny part of the bottom of surcharge numeral. Additional faint traces of the red surcharge appear across the stamp, particularly on the figure just above and to the right of the original 15 (c) printed value of the Navigation and Commerce issue.
The former Sultanate of Adjouan (also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani, and historically as Johanna or Hinzuan) is now known as Île Autonome d'Anjouan (Autonomous Island of Anjouan). The island has a total area of 424 square kilometers (163 square miles). The first inhabitants of the island of Anjouan were explorers and immigrants from Indonesia and Polynesia. After that people all around the Indian Ocean began to come to Anjouan and the Comoro Islands. In about 1500, the Sultanate of Ndzuwani (Anjouan) was founded, which took over the entire island. The sultanate was the most powerful of all the Comorian sultanates. In 1816, Sultan Alawi bin Husein requested French assistance against the Sultanate of Zanzibar which was threatening his domain. The island came under French protection in 1886. France abolished slavery in then-Ndzuwani in 1899, and formally annexed Anjouan in 1912. The strictly republican annexation was opposed by the last reigning sultan but his meager forces were crushed when they offered resistance. The population of Anjouan is made up of African mainlanders, Creoles, Arabs, Malay-Polynesians, Antalotes and Shirazis. The main religion is Sunni Islam. Although the island is filled with large numbers of mosques, religious observance is not as strict as it is in many other countries observing Islam. Alcohol is forbidden to Muslims.
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