rod222
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Post by rod222 on Aug 15, 2013 2:21:42 GMT
Adding to the TSF Knowledge base, this piece on The Gambia's early perforations. Appeared in the magazine "Stamp Collecting" UK 11th February 1980 : Author "CURZON" under "Empire Echoes"
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cjd
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Post by cjd on Aug 15, 2013 4:01:59 GMT
This needs some thought...and some review of some stamps...
I don't recall seeing this before, so if I can remember it, it might do me some good.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Aug 15, 2013 8:24:56 GMT
It would take a vast amount of knowledge of De La Rue Collin, to nut that one out. They could have acquired that from anywhere, Perkins? Basically June 1880 line perf wmk sideways October 1880 low 5 values line perf wmk upright May 1881 wmk upright comb.
Your stamp Gibbons "aniline crimson"
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 18, 2013 11:02:39 GMT
The 1880 issues were perforated by a line or guillotine machine according to Colin McCaig. The perforations measure 13.8 x 13.7
The third and last consignment of this issue (1881) was perforated using the Somerset House Comb machine. The machine was designed for perforating one row of 12 stamps at a time. The small Cameo sheets were put through the perforator so that the row of five stamps took the position designed on the comb for the second to sixth stamp of a standard sheet.
Two perforating machines were used by De La Rue for the 1883-87 issue. The First Comb machine was the ex-Somerset House example used for the 1881 consignment. It is characterized by an extra row of teeth perforating the right-hand margin of the sheet, dividing it into two parts. The Second Comb machine has no corresponding row of teeth, leaving the margin unperforated.
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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 Oct 30, 2023 15:36:23 GMT
Adding these to reference. I have been going through my dad's old album an trying to weed out the forgeries. Seems all the valuable stamps are thus. According to a link I found forgeries.info/countries/gambia.php the "A" in Gambia is too broad. And the cancel looks fraudulent to me as well, but I am no expert. If anyone else has an opinion, please chime in.
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