Definition of "misstamp"

One of the main purposes of the committee is the investigation and prosecutions of violators of the National Stamping Act, viz: those merchants who misstamp jewelry and to help weed out from the trade this class of dishonest merchants.

1920, The Jewelers' Circular - Volume 81, Issue 2, page 89

Pravel, et al. (attorneys at law) notified the Director of Inspection and Enforcement on September 14, 1981, that WFI had been supplied with bar stock which had been misstamped in terms of material type.

1983, Office of Inspection and Enforcement, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Licensee Contractor and Vendor Inspection Status Report, page 168

This procedure will serve to eliminate claims that Customs misstamped the date of presentation, an allegation often made in one-day late cases.

1986, U.S. Customs Service. Office of Commercial Operations, Fines, Penalties, & Forfeitures Handbook, page 40

Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.

1997, Cheryl Glenn, Rhetoric Retold, page 120

And those gilded palaces where hands are dirty she leaves, averting her eyes; she goes to what is clean, for she doesn't honor power whose coinage is misstamped by the praise of the rich.

2019, Aeschylus, The Oresteia, page 59

Aren't there cases where there might be a technical violation, where on explanation of the manufacturer involved, there could be found a reasonable explanation, that by some misstamp or carelessness or failing to carry out orders, the thing occurred, and yet if your plan were to be put into effect, immediately there was any sort of action taken, there would be publicity given to that fact.

1934, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, “In the Matter of The Application of Richard G. Strauss”, in Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics, page 87

According to plaintiff, the misstamp "could have been a factory error."

1997, New Jersey. Superior Court, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court, Appellate Division, Chancery Division, Law Division, and in the County Courts of the State of New Jersey, page 610

Positioning of the stamp needs to be carried out up to now in specially designed high precission machines, since a single misstamp leads to activation of the touched area.

2012, Hans-Peter Saluz, M. Köhler, T. Mejevaia, Microsystem Technology: A Powerful Tool for Biomolecular Studies, page 263