These Perfs Look Right To You???

I like the debate going on here... different opinions! Anyone else???

First full perf on lower left is fully under the design in block of 4 while that same perf on the single hangs a out over to the left of the design. I say not from the block.

It looks to me like single stamp has a wider left margin than any stamp of that block.

Good point canyon!

Vote count 5-4 ( 5 not from block/ 4 yes)

Should have started a "poll" thread.

Rhett, how do you explain this long perf that is clearly not on the LL stamp in the certified block? Surely no one would have added a perf tip to a perfectly good set of perforations.

I agree with littleriverphil. The centering/margins tell me that this stamp is not from the block.

Dudley, that perforation must have grown! LOL - I think you've got me on that one.

Littleriverphil and Bookbndrbob - your observations are very good. The border on the right of the stamp in question is quite narrow whereas the stamps in the cert. are all nearly perfectly centered left to right.

I agree

The perfs on the right looked wrong to me right away, but they seem to pass the Srail test OK. I'm no expert so would be interested in what others think about that aspect.

I'm also surprised that at first glance, and second, third and fourth, it looked to me like it could be from the block in the cert. But after playing with the images in Photoshop, decided it couldn't be. Then refreshed my view of the discussion to see others had decided the same for all the same reasons.

Nice post and discussion.

I am like you, a bit uneasy about the perfs on the right. I tend to shy away from purchasing stamps where the perfs on one side are unlike any of the perfs on the other three.

Due to the misleading cert I'd have a tough time assuming the best on anything else I doubted about the stamp.

When looking at the single stamp the perfs looked good to me. I did not see the block that was posted until later. Now looking at block and knowing now that it is " suppose to be LL of block" I would say NO way it is LL single. Maybe UL or even a different stamp. Maybe someone is doing the bait and switch?

Thanks to all for confirming that I am not insane. It's possible the perforations on right side didn't look right to me because the centering compared to the cert LL stamp was not lining up. But I still get the impression that perfs on right are too large compared to other sides and certified block. I understand that when a stamp I separated from a block it's possible that the perforations don't separate perfectly down middle leaving a stamp with "deeper" perfs. However based on that certified block it just seems these Perf holes are too deep and would start to see the perf curve back around if it was real.

When I get chance I'll take a copy at home, scan it to the size of the stamp and line up perfs against it. I just think the holes on right are too big.