Think This E3 Is Reperfed Left Side - Agree?

When I was ready to put this in the album - suddenly noticed that it is almost 2.5mm wider that the nearby E2. Maybe a jumbo? But then I see that the right & left perfs don't come close to matching up. Used srail - that helped confirm. Also, it looks like the left side perfs kind of dive in toward the design, particularly the two nearest the bottom. Perf 12 all around using the Precision US Specialty Multi-Gauge by Sonic Imagery, and the cancellation circle is a nice steady 29mm.

To me it all adds up to a reperf left - agree? (paid about half cat. - liked the cancellation during the Columbian expo)

Or am I inventing problems?

Thanks for your thoughts...

I'm no expert but it looks good to me. Nice wide margin and nice C.D.S. & cork- Great stamp!

Agree that left and right Peres don't match up. But can you imagine that margin if it is a reperf? That would have had to be an enormous margin on the left side. That coupled with the large right hand margin wold be strange as well. But then again I haven't studied a lot of E3's to know if this was common or not.

It looks fine to me....

I was thinking that for the stamp to be so wide, it was likely the left side was a straight edge, on the left side of a pane. Also, looking at other copies on various sites, I have not seen any with the perfs so mis-aligned between the right and left sides. It appears to be about 50% misaligned - if you consider 100% mis-alignment to be one side center of hole lining up with other side center of space between holes.

Thanks for your thoughts and ideas, folks.

If these were straight line perforated, and looking at the corners it appears to me that they were, then mis-alignment between opposite sides is a common 'tell'

It is not correct to assume that the perforations should "line up" on this stamp. You need to compare the gauge and appearance of the perforations to evaluate them. I think there are some stamps where perforations do line up but it probably wasn't until the production of rotary press stamps.