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Posted 06/11/2012   9:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add 241079 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Are these normal ?



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Posted 06/11/2012   10:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You mean with the extra bits of margin or selvedge (selvage) attached. yes, some collectors like the extra bits attached, many do not. Up to you.

With the selvedge attached but the perfs creased or bent this would lower the value from the state where thery were not bent at all. I do not know that they are worth more than a stamp without selvedge. Depends on the collector I suppose.
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Posted 06/11/2012   10:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 241079 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thanks. can you please have a look at the top 3p stamp and look at the paper under that the water mark is visable in the paper but no stamp on it is that normal ?
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Posted 06/11/2012   10:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The blue horizontal band is normal, being the same colour as the stamp and probably a printers reference, something like so called traffic lights (multiple dots coloured differently) found on multi-coloured stamps.

The vertical band I can see is called a phosphor tag, shows up under ultraviolet (UV) light and is used by the sorting machines in a postal plant to detect whether a stamp is on the envelope and where it is, to help in flipping and orienting the envelope around by machine so as to make the cancellation of the stamp more exact.

If the watermark (if there is one on these it would be underneath, pressed into the paper before printing of colours began) May extend into the selvedge on some stamp panes and sheets but I have not studied watermarks enough myself to say yes or no for sure with this issue.
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Posted 06/11/2012   11:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 241079 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks very much Puzzler.
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Posted 06/12/2012   04:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Yorkshire Stamp Club to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Where we are, edge stamps are actually more collectible than isolated ones. We have a collector who buys commemoratives each time they come out and always gets the edge stamps with a description of the issue on the edges. Corner stamps even more so as of course there are only 4 per sheet.
I would never remove edges as they tend to add approx 25% to the value of any stamp.
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Posted 06/12/2012   04:12 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Chinesestamplover to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I dont think it is normal anymore.Nice and interesting stamp you have there.Keep it up with the good work,check mine up and let me know what you think.
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Posted 06/12/2012   08:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Yorkshire Stamp Club to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Chin,
It is in England. It may very well not be where you are, but Her Majesty's stamps still have edges and very informative they are too,
Bear - York.St.Cb.
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Edited by Yorkshire Stamp Club - 06/12/2012 11:28 am
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