Scott 569 Miniature

I need help here. I found this miniature stamp in my collection. Has anyone ever seen a reduced sized stamp like this??

The smaller one is the perf 11x11 flat plate stamp, and the larger one is the 10.5x11 rotary press stamp.

it's made of paper and paper can be shrunk

The stamp on the left has been seriously messed up. I don't know if a long soak in bleach would break down the paper fibers enough to allow it to shrink like that, but that might explain the loss of pigment. The stamp obviously did not shrink uniformly, as seen by the irregular shape, especially obvious across the top of the design, which is no longer straight. It isn't even uniform in height, shorter on its left side.

Performing sort of a version of the "Srail Test", using a graphics program to 1) select a portion of the normal stamp's right side perfs, 2) rotating that selection 90 degrees clockwise, and 3) moving it to the top of the suspect stamp, to compare the supposed similar 11 gauge perfs, shows that the suspect stamp is nowhere near perf 11 across the top.

Stamp experts Calvin & Hobbes would tell you the stamp has been transmogrified.

And here they are......

Terry

Perfect, Terry. The tigers are clearly not the same size, so I guess you nailed it.

Hi Duncan,

I just thought it neat having Calvin transmogrified into a tiger cub.

Terry