sudbury12000
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What I collect: Canada, Great Britain, Germany, World Pre 1925
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Post by sudbury12000 on Nov 18, 2024 15:52:07 GMT
I was going through an old collection, mostly very common stamps but this appeared. Initially it looked like someone had torn half the stamp off, but I noticed the cancel went over the cut. Was this ever authorized usage?  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Nov 18, 2024 22:59:02 GMT
I was going through an old collection, mostly very common stamps but this appeared. Initially it looked like someone had torn half the stamp off, but I noticed the cancel went over the cut. Was this ever authorized usage? Personal opinion only. All bisected stamps, should be treated with healthy suspicion I have no evidence in my records of that stamp being bisected. Cursory ebay searches would confirm that. There are Canadian bisected stamps, that create controversy, yet still command huge prices on the open market (example the Port Hood Bisects) I have seen Nova Scotia earlies bisected with apparent genuine Pmks. I like you cover, it is a cracker, and would grace my collection as a "curiosity piece" should I have owned it but I would not be carried away. A cursory search of my Canadian literature, brings up very little with "bisects" Was there ever a postal rate of 1c in 1953 ? |
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sudbury12000
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What I collect: Canada, Great Britain, Germany, World Pre 1925
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Post by sudbury12000 on Nov 18, 2024 23:40:37 GMT
I like you cover, it is a cracker, and would grace my collection as a "curiosity piece" should I have owned it but I would not be carried away. A cursory search of my Canadian literature, brings up very little with "bisects" Was there ever a postal rate of 1c in 1953 ? Thank you rod222 , I, like you, cannot find anything this on this. But low and behold, there may be another in the batch. I would like to know what you could mail for 1c in '53. Since it has the 2c on it, it may have been a damaged stamp but still got cancelled and posted.
Curiosity piece seems to be the correct name for this for now.
cheers
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Nov 18, 2024 23:52:46 GMT
sudbury12000 One has to consider, there was no physical appraisal of the cover during transit The article moved through an automatic machine canceller, that picked up the bisect as an authorised franking. My thoughts go to a New Zealander who mailed a cover using the stamp image from a box roll of postage stamps with a successful delivery. Stamp collectors do do some Hijinx things, we all do like to play some time I once cut out and reversed the central black swan, of Western Australia, creating modern "inverted frame" stamps posted to colleagues , all got through i assume. PS: I believe there was a postal rate in the US of discount rate, if a "handover" ? that is, if the mail was mailed in a Post Office, where the recipient was deliverable by the same Post Office. (a local)
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sudbury12000
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What I collect: Canada, Great Britain, Germany, World Pre 1925
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Post by sudbury12000 on Nov 19, 2024 14:12:25 GMT
rod222 , the plot thickens. I suspect you are correct about a stamp collector sending himself a curiosity as the second envelope had a note inside. Maybe they did have a couple of damaged stamps and wanted to see if they would go through the system. It would have been interesting if the other half of the stamp ever made it as the other side does not carry the denomination. 
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