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Post by southafrica1 on Dec 10, 2023 21:11:32 GMT
I found this item in a foreign mix...maybe someone can ID this. It looks like perf 11-3/4 and maybe scott no. 8a, 8d or 8e. any help would be appreciated...thanks. ps...there is no gum...maybe this is normal? I also had one ID saying it was a reprint. Would be nice to get a second opinion as it may be a high catalog item. southafrica1 |
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Dec 10, 2023 21:28:19 GMT
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Londonbus1
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What I collect: Cinderellas and some Ephemera from Great Britain, France and Israel plus a few beautiful bits from elsewhere !! Topical interests include Flags & Judaica, the latter with an emphasis on the Jewish National Fund.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Dec 11, 2023 6:27:18 GMT
Alex ( vikingeck) will look at this I am sure !  |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 11, 2023 10:00:41 GMT
I am afraid southafrica1 , like 90% of the Express stamps that turn up , your 5/- green is a reprint. The original tiny plate printed only 10 at a time , 2 rows of 5 . They were perforated only between the stamps.Never perforated all round,so the top edge on row1 and the bottom edge on row 2 are blind on the originals, the perfs then are a dead give away. Impossible on any 5/- original. in addition the print run of reprints ( Whitfield King acquired the plates and reassembled the cliches to make sheets of 40) all have two distinctive features we call “State IV reprints” . The letter M in Samoa has a long ragged serif top right , and on the green curve there is a tiny dot or blip just below the V of the same letter. Sadly reprints retail at 50cents unlike the genuine originals which should be £££ or $$$ Thanks Hugh hdm1950 for the link to my tutorial . There is an illustration showing the reprint . Incidentally it is not one of the 2 common forgery types either. |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 11, 2023 13:52:30 GMT
Here is a sheet of the 1/- showing the impossibility of perfs all round on 4 sides  |
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Londonbus1
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What I collect: Cinderellas and some Ephemera from Great Britain, France and Israel plus a few beautiful bits from elsewhere !! Topical interests include Flags & Judaica, the latter with an emphasis on the Jewish National Fund.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Dec 11, 2023 15:15:52 GMT
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Post by southafrica1 on Dec 12, 2023 16:13:00 GMT
thanks for your responses...I was pretty sure it was a reprint or a forgery...too good to be true!
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