What Do You Think About The Perfs On This Stamp?

A few shorts on the top but the rest looks good and the design is very close to center. Nice stamp overall. The shorts shouldn't affect anything.

Right side looks strange. Bottom perfs look to be different depths, or it's an optical illusion.

I agree with Stallzer. The right and the bottom perfs need to be carefully examined.

best way to tell is look on the underside at high magnification if the stamp has been reperfed.

The ones on the right look a but odd? Otherwise looks good. Don't mean to hi-jack your post but have a look at this one. It looks like it was re-perforated in an attempt to fix something? The previous owner went to a lot of trouble to fix an otherwise worthless stamp though? Have a look at the bottom center of this one. They almost all jump around a bit don't they? odd.

In reality, the perforations on stamps are not round, but actually slightly oval.



A sheet of stamps would have all the horizontal perforations applied and then be turned and have the vertical perforations done, one or more rows at a time, perforated by a "comb" or a "perforated wheels".

Reperforated stamps, assuming that's the concern here, is really something that must be read about. I don't know where the "rough edge" of a perforation would show up vertically. This is an interesting, and scary link on the subject.

http://www.philatelicfoundation.org...d_stamps.htm


Hope this helps
-IBFS

The buffalo doesn't looked reperfed. The bottom perfs may have been trimmed. The roughrider oddly enough does looked reperfed on the right. Why would somebody reperf a cheap stamp?

Finally, Yes the buffalo hasn't been touched at all. The perfs look that way because of how it was separated.

To practice, of course.

The Rough Riders is simply damaged. That is a pulled perf and a few short perfs, not a reperf job. Still good to put on a letter.