Speaking Of Bank Notes...

I thought I had read that these were in the era of flat plate printing.
Hence there were no straight edges on stamps.
Is that so?

Looking on bidstart a particular seller has a number in this series with straight edges.. honestly they all look cut. I wrote him yesterday about a particular stamp (expensive) that was obviously reperfed. he responded back with something like "taken again, dammit" Really? I am going to sell expensive stamps and not see an obvious alteration?

stay away from that guy, he has a lot of garbage out there.

Who is "that guy"? Post his name so we all know who to stay away from. It's ok, let us all know.




Butch

The banknotes were flat plate printings in sheets of 200 subjects in 2 panes of 100. The sheet was split into the 2 panes this would yield 10 straight edges per pane. So 10% of all banknote will have one straight edge.

Russ, thank you for that clarification..
I appreciate it..

i guess someone cut them right against the frame of the stamp, there is no margin.

as for his name, I don't think it is right to mention it here, in fact I was wrong in part of my initial post.

sv,

Frequently when the panes were cut into individual sheets they didn't exactly cut right along the guide line... I've seen (and own) quite a few guide line stamps that have huge straddle-pane margins. I have a 91R6 24c that shows most of the right "4" in "24" from 100L6