JeffS
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Posts: 2,610
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Apr 30, 2023 16:16:41 GMT
This design was not used for any postal stationery. Drop this in a dish of warm water and I believe the answer will reveal itself.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 30, 2023 18:40:58 GMT
thanks JeffS - will do later tonight or tomorrow - your information is extremely helpful. So you feel sure this is a bona fide stamp and the perfs. have been cut away deliberately - and what are your thoughts please on the matter of the flaw on the trunk ??
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,610
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Apr 30, 2023 19:52:11 GMT
Take a look at my previously posted “falling ladder flaw” for similar distortion. I believe this is simply a characteristic of this printing and is without philatelic merit as an oddity.
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,610
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Apr 30, 2023 19:54:09 GMT
thanks JeffS - will do later tonight or tomorrow - your information is extremely helpful. So you feel sure this is a bona fide stamp and the perfs. have been cut away deliberately - and what are your thoughts please on the matter of the flaw on the trunk ?? To me this is how it was cut from the envelope, a tad too close to be collectible.
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Post by paul1 on May 1, 2023 11:26:31 GMT
I've now soaked this one and it floated off a thin card backing, so your thoughts correct JeffS and indeed a stamp. Rather a mystery as to why it was scissor trimmed with such a close shave - which ruins the stamp - but I'll keep to remind me this value was never a postal stationery item. thanks again.
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,610
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on May 30, 2023 21:03:49 GMT
This tidy block of SG61d closed scrolls arrived today. I haven't added anything to this collection is quite a while.
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,610
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Oct 21, 2023 1:12:56 GMT
Newly-added to my growing lot of this issue, a tidy OG NH top block of 5 from the Hyphenated Rotogravure printings of ca 1933, issue 5, with marginal arrows denoting the vertical center of the sheet.
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JeffS
Member
Posts: 2,610
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Dec 13, 2023 2:42:08 GMT
This tidy block of 8 popped up last week: South Africa 1950 SG 119 6d Green & Red Orange Tree Type III Block of 8 used (as described by the seller)
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