Odd edge on 1911 KGV 2c red - help identifying

Let me suggest that it is likely a natural straight edge.

Straight edges are common, so no separate entries are provided. Most people don't like them, myself included. But if that's all there is, then that's in the collection. I have none at the moment in my Canadian collection, IIRC. Some people collect all 4 straight edges...

Sometimes, all it takes to sell on eBay is imagination and creativity.

I'm one of those !   I collect them and have made dedicated album pages for them, as an example as shown in THIS  post. 




It may be worth noting that some Canadian stamps can have straight edges for two different reasons - either because it was issued in booklets - or the same stamp can have been at the outer row/column of a sheet/pane. These can easily be misidentified if not studying the imperf side closely. The booklets will have clean-cut imperf sides, whilst the regular straight edged stamps will have uneven edges, just like the stamp in cjoprey 's original post.

Some imperf singles from booklets are somewhat valuable (whilst the regular straight edged counterpart is not) - and scrupulous sellers have been selling the regular straight edged stamps as if they were from a booklet. 

blaamand, I wish it was mine but, sadly, it isn't.

Somewhere on TSF many years ago I started ranting about my remaining pet peeve regarding the Unitrade catalogue, which had undergone numerous substantial improvements over the years under the editorship of Robin Harris.  That had to do with Admiral (and other issue) straight-edged stamps.  There are numbered & priced listings in Unitrade for booklet singles and in the cases of issues like these KGV Admirals, there is often no way to tell by the position of the straight edges whether that stamp came out of a booklet or whether it was a sheet stamp.  I had long ago saved a note which said that booklet singles had smooth cuts on the straight edges and sheet stamps had rough cuts (like the stamps shown earlier in this thread).  But I couldn't remember where I had found that info and I wanted to see it again just so I could call it up whenever I wanted it.  Our admin tomiseksj came up with the link I was missing - a page on the BNAPS' Guide to the Admiral Stamps of Canada, specifically dealing with straight-edged stamps.



Ryan