Partime
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What I collect: Australia, Classic GB and Commonwealth
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Post by Partime on Aug 17, 2024 3:14:14 GMT
Probably a very silly question, but this is the only stamp out of my KGV collection that has such a wide, not perforated area at the bottom. Common?   |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Aug 17, 2024 5:43:52 GMT
Probably a very silly question, but this is the only stamp out of my KGV collection that has such a wide, not perforated area at the bottom. Common? Yes, common. The Grover comb perforator, has a regular format, with each puncture. Your stamp lies within that format. Notice the perfs are beginning to enter the design of the sideface at the top. The paper in the bed of the perforator is slightly out of whack on the bed. Move it down say, 1 to 1½ perfs, and your stamp would be central. Some collector, willingly or not, has severed the lower perfs, to have us guessing. PS: Not sure if, where I may have read it, but I have a gnawing feeling the OS opts were printed on "less than perfect" sheets. It just seems curious, that a lot of OS (ON SERVICE) opts, lie on badly centred stamps. (esp. on the vertical sides) PPS: Always check your 5d (five penny) brown buff, OS stamps, after 67 YEARS a new discovery, with "small crown and A, multiple wmk" 1 known |
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