Sweden Part Imperf

Hi to all

It this stamp supposed to be part imperf?
Regards
Horamakhet

Horamakhet, I don't know what to think about this stamp. I've seen plenty of stamps like this and have always assumed that for some reason the perfs have been cut off with scissors. This is the first time I've seen a stamp like this with what appears to be a genuinely imperf side. It's genuinely perplexing.

Hi jimjamtwo

It has me puzzled as well.
Horamakhet

My guess is that this is a perf stamp but one located on the lefthand margin of the sheet and not perforated there. This could make it relatively rare. it would be well worth sending an email off with a scan to a real expert in Swedish stamps to ask for an opinion.

Hi jimjamtwo

I will take your advice. Got any ideas who?

Horamakhet

I think it's just a stamp that has been cut from an envelope by someone not careful. The left side was already not perforated but the three other sides are damage missing some perf.

H., I think you'd have to research online to find out; the best point of approach is probably a European auction house. They will ask you to get it expertised (you item may still be sellable, despite the cut perfs, if it's rare enough). Then you ask them to recommend somebody. You can find out the names of these auction houses from this website, which lists auctions by a large number of international auction houses, including ones in Europe that would be most likely to be interested in your stamp:

http://stampcircuit.com

For what its worth I reckon you all have it badly identified,
this Swedish stamp from what I can see comes commonly with jumbo
margins.
It was simply cut from the envelope by scissors
then soaked probably.
...but the again, only my opinion :)

It's possible, rod222, but then why only cut all the perfs off the lefthand side and leave the other three sides only partly done?

I guess we'll never know the answer!

I spend quite a time at the Red Cross
in Western Australia where they have their own stamp shop.
Donations come in, and if you saw what some people do
with a pair of scissor, you would not be surprised at all.
It seems, when a layman is given an envelope
and asked to cut around a stamp, it seems and inherent human
condition that this means within three thousands of an inch.

I have a cutting somewhere regarding a representative of Stanley Gibbons
going out to appraise an eldely ladies extensive collection.

You can say he was just a little surprised, when he noted
she had cut off all the perforations, on every single stamp,
she didn't like
"Those nasy shaggy bits" or something like that.

I still may be in error,
certainly one should get a certificate
if one thinks they have a valuable rarity.
If you do, please let us know the outcome.

You start trimming a stamp and when you're done, you find there was another stamp hugging the back of the one you were cutting. I've only done it about 7,000 times ..... grrr (although usually the tell-tale feeling of cutting over perf teeth causes me to quit after destroying only one side of the piggyback stamp)

Ryan

Hi to all

I have contacted a European Auction house. They have said the same as Jimjamtwo, I need to have it thoroughly examined. I am in no hurry and will be going to Europe next year and I will take it. But at the moment I will show it to a local philatelist Society and see what they say.
I examined it the perfs under the microscope 10X x 4 and the imperf side shows no sign of tampering.

It gets curiouser and curiouser as Alice would say

Regards,
Horamakhet.

An example of the wide jumbo margins possible to have on this issue.

If you look at the angle of the imperf sides and part sides on your stamp you can see that the person cutting it off cut both sides and top and bottom at roughly the same angle, perhaps so as not to cut their fingers or while chatting to another charity worker.

The angles of the cuts do it for me. All four sides have been cut after the fact and not while on the printing press.