Scott #557 Line Of 4 Imperf Top 10 Perf Verticle

I have a line of 4 #557 that is imperforate at the top and 10 perf vertically and a verticle line in the middle. Can anyone tell me anything about it? Thanks.

Hard to tell if it's truly a Horizontal imperf or a scissor job. The centering appears to be off considerably. Also, there is something else happening there as the 2 right Stamps have a higher frame than the left 2. Perhaps coil waste ? Can you scan the back ?

Here is a pic of the back. I'm new to this stamp thing so you will have to be patient with me. You can see the bottoms of two stamps at the top of the stamps on the first pic on the left which leads me to believe it's imperforate.

My 1st thought was that it's a paste up strip of coils but I can't see the back image that well. It does look strange...

Art

That's the term I was looking for, Paste up ! I also just noticed that there is a joint line in the middle.

This is a Scott 602 line strip of 4. The mis-alignment between the 2 stamps on the left (from one plate) and the 2 stamps on the right (from another plate) is due to poor plate placement. This mis-allignment appears to be about 1.5mm which is about the greatest amount that the rotary press woudl tolerate.

There are some additional examples of this type of misalignment at https://goscf.com/t/16808#16808

Yours is quite interesting!

Steve

I apologize for the poor pic of the backside but I'm using a cheap camera. What exactly is a paste up? Thanks to everyone for your comments.

These are rotary press and would not have a paste up. They did occasionally break and have a splice.

ffejy, a paste-up was used for joining flat plate coil strips of 20 together to form the rolls of 500 or 1000.


You can see the paste-up to the rigt of the perforations (Scott 441).


Government splice (Scott 722)

It's not a paste-up. A paste-up pair is where the end stamps of two coils are joined together with a splicing tape. [OK, Russ already explained it better and showed pics while I was typing.]

As Russ noted, it is simply misalignment of the ends of the rotary plate. The plate is curved, and where the ends meet forms the joint line. Sometimes the ends don't meet perfectly, so you see a vertical displacement -- in your example, the displacement is more pronounced.

A nice example, thanks for posting the pic!

This also happens sometimes on modern coils as well. If anyone collects tagging anomalies, you can also find the same type of vertical displacement on coil stamps that are block-tagged. On some coil stamps that were overall tagged (not prephosphored), I have also found tagging "gaps". Funny things often happen at the joints!

Meanwhile, it looks like some silverfish were hungry for your Teddy stamps!

After reading your explanations of paste ups, I checked mine and they are not paste ups. Thank you all for the schooling.

Yep khj is right! Those holes are from silverfish.