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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2023 22:25:16 GMT
Hello everybody!
I've never seen one like this before:
The watermark is upright Multiple Crowns. The diadem is Type I. The paper is "whiter". So this is a common specimen of SG 574e / S56C, isn't it?
But the perforations seem to be trimmed (not torn) left, right and top (which is odd), and the trimming left and right is curved, not straight, with the same curvature both sides (which is bizarre).
I've examined thousands upon thousands of Wildings, but I've never seen this curvature in the trimming of the perforations before. Does anybody have an explanation?
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Jul 14, 2023 23:07:17 GMT
Hello everybody!
I've never seen one like this before:
The watermark is upright Multiple Crowns. The diadem is Type I. The paper is "whiter". So this is a common specimen of SG 574e / S56C, isn't it?
But the perforations seem to be trimmed (not torn) left, right and top (which is odd), and the trimming left and right is curved, not straight, with the same curvature both sides (which is bizarre).
I've examined thousands upon thousands of Wildings, but I've never seen this curvature in the trimming of the perforations before. Does anybody have an explanation?
Perforations trimmed when the stamp was cut from its envelope before soaking. It is a damaged stamp of no value. |
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Post by khj on Jul 15, 2023 17:26:47 GMT
I was about to also reply that it was damage from scissor-cutting the stamp from the envelope. But then held back. The curvature also bothered me, especially since the teeth in the middle of both right/left sides are torn rather than cut, and then we have to ask why is there parts of the next stamp at the right top and right bottom. So was the cutting damage before or after the stamp was affixed to the envelope?
Then I noticed "nibs" along the cut edges (or are my eyes just playing tricks on me?). Which makes me think a dull or serrated edge on a dispensing machine (hand-held type). I've seen similar nibs on stamps from a cheap hand-held dispenser/affixer that didn't have an actual cutting blade but just a cheap/flimsy metal edge (kind of like those slim metal edges on those aluminum foil dispensers).
From my imagination -- Wilding horizontal coil loaded into a cheapy affixer, serrated edge became bowed and eventually damaged in the middle, resulting in the curved "cuts" and no "cut" in the middle.
Of course, I wasn't there when whatever it was happened, so this is just my imagination... Default go-to answer is Jeff's.
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Jul 15, 2023 22:46:12 GMT
I think there is merit to khj's evaluation. I have never seen such a device. Either way, it is a post-production damaged stamp. |
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Post by khj on Jul 15, 2023 23:08:40 GMT
I am not familiar with the British models of the hand-held stamp affixers, but here is a very nice webpage going over the history of lots of models: Affixing & VendingThe type I was thinking of was like the Postafix model, but based on the stamp, likely one of the pre-Postafix (pre-Data-Link). I'm not familiar with the coil sizes for the Wildings, so cannot give a better direction in terms of which hand-help stamp affixer might have been used. But again, all just a guess. Obviously, I wasn't there... |
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