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Strange Mark On Back (Mouse)?

 
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jayvin
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Posted 11/15/2011   10:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add jayvin to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I ahve noticed this mark on the back of at least a dozen revenue stamps. Any ideas as to why and/or what?

This is a R55 (those look like red threads to me?)

R65
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jamesw
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Posted 11/15/2011   10:43 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Probably an expertizing or dealers mark.

Here's a great website about expertizing marks. They don't have all of them of course, but it never hurts to look.

http://www.filatelia.fi/experts/index.html
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revenuecollector
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I'm guessing an owner's mark. A practice from the past that I'm glad is gone. I've seen far too many instances of the owner's mark bleeding through to the front of the stamp. I have far less of a problem with someone writing lightly in pencil...
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