Three Interesting Stamps With Perf Problems

here are 3 stamps I found that have interesting perfs.

two look not completely perfed and the other bad perfs.

i find them interesting.

i did not notice these until I soaked them off paper.

I just went through a whole pile of stamps of about the same vintage. It's absolutely amazing all of the different perfs and subtle details that give the stamp a whole different catalog number.

As far as the Yellow Rose is concerned, that's Scott No. 3054 in a serpentine die cut 9.8 perf. vertical.

The Flag over City is either a Scott No. 3280, 3281 or 3282, depending on the angles of the die cut corners. I think it's probably a 3281, as it looks as if it compares to the same perforations as on the Yellow Rose, also a 9.8 perf. vertical.

The Non-Denominated Flag is either a 4131, 4132, 4133, 4134 or 4135, depending again on the size of the die cut perfs. I think it's a Scott No. 4133, perf. 11 verticial with perpendicular corners.

Don't hold me to those identification numbers, as someone with more experience in these varieties than I may be able to give you better information.

The bottom line is that these were some of the early die cut self adhesive coil stamps and they came in a vast number of seemingly similar, yet different varieties. Remember, too, that there were perforation varieties gauged as small as 0.1 (i.e. 9.9 perf. vs. 9.8 perf.) and then there are rounded and vertical corner varieties, and large date and small date varieties within several of the Scott numbers listed.

What a chore to identify them all!

i know there are many varieties of these but the misperfing caused my interest.

I do a large amount of mailing. One of the problems I've run into when using self-adhesive panes and coils is that sometimes the die cut doesn't cut deeply enough. As a result, you literally have to tear the stamp apart, often NOT at the die cut. You can see the die cut, but it is either not deep enough or not continuous enough.

I find it ironic that I can affix the normal lick'n'stick stamps at nearly 3x the rate of putting on self-adhesives. While the self-adhesives may be convenient if you want to mail one or two items, the fact is that it takes longer to remove self-stick stamps from the adhesive backing and longer to remove them from sticking to your fingers. It's only a couple of seconds extra for each stamp, but when you are sticking on thousands of stamps, the time cost can actually increase by an hour or more! I noticed that the first time I used a large number of self-adhesives and was rather surprised; so in general, I avoid self-adhesives when doing large mailings.

I cannot see any mis-perfs
Or am I looking at the wrong place ?

Not mis-perfs in the normal sense, since these are die cuts.

The 32c yellow rose, look at the right side starting from the top. The die cuts are there, but the tear occurred a few mm to the right in the next stamp! In other words, the shallow die cut did nothing to help guide the tear. Same thing with the 33c flag and city, except at the bottom right side.

In the non-denominated flag, some of the teeth at the right side ended up tearing off completely, instead of along the non-continuous cuts.