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J84 Postage Due Ink Smear

 
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Posted 02/25/2012   12:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wt1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Would you consider this an uncommon variety (lower right stamp, the "1" in the denomination "10")?



Here's a close up:



Would it just be considered a "freak" because of the overinking?
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Posted 02/25/2012   4:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Russ to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't see any indication of a problem with the wipers which I would expect to see if it was from over inking. Since the rest of the unprinted area looks pretty clean I would suspect it to be a damaged transfer with a small ding.
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Posted 02/25/2012   5:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks. Actually, it's an O.G., N.H. block of stamps, even though it has a P.O. handstamp cancel. Apparently this post office marked sheets upon sheets of these stamps, presumably to document postage due payments, and later they were broken up into blocks of 4 as shown in my scan.

Here's another example (again, lower right of the block) that may be more common, except that the stamp looks as if it were "oversprayed" (?) with ink:



Another sectional close up:

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Edited by wt1 - 02/25/2012 5:29 pm
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Posted 02/25/2012   6:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add eaglebub7 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Appears to look like paper dust on the plate. By looking at the scan, it seems like the left side is clean and progressively gets worse going to the right side.
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