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Posted 02/20/2014   1:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add pisti1978 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have these 3 blocks of stamps with some of the varieties you can help me to classify them? thank's very much


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Posted 02/20/2014   2:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampcrow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The top block I cannot ID but the perfs do not look correct.
The bottom block I believe (was) Scott #482 Imperf. It appears to me that someone added some bad perforations.

The middle block is from 1909 Lincoln Centenary of Birth, either Scott #367 or the rarer #369. The #369 is printed on bluish paper and is quite valuable. There is an imperf version of this (Scott #368)
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Posted 02/20/2014   3:07 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 51studebaker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Bottom one - Plate number 8070 is Scott #482 (imperf). This late number was also used on #499 but those perfs aren't right for a #499. (And certainly look odd.)
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Posted 02/20/2014   4:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add JLLebbert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I agree that the bottom block appears to be 482 with perfs added. The plate number does restrict the choices to 482 & 499. It seems to me that all the 499 blocks I've seen have perfs that run all the way to the edge of the selvage, while the ones here do not. Nor, as it has been pointed out, do the perfs look normal.
Added: In the top block, I just noticed that there appears to be a row of "blind perfs" on the lower stamps across Washington's forehead.
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Posted 02/21/2014   01:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pisti1978 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thanks for the help you are giving me, I'm really complicated to classify, block 1 has the indentation blind, or skip perforation. To distinguish the block n2 do not know if it is bluish paper from the paper I do not have a comparison to determine this. Thank's Simone
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Posted 02/21/2014   10:36 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add JLLebbert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Re 367 vs. 369 ... here's a sample scan for what it's worth.


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Posted 02/22/2014   04:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pisti1978 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank's for the images on the screen seem a 369 but need a certificate
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The bottom image is totally contrived for at least 2 major reasons. 1.) the perforations are added to a imperforate stamp block. 2.) The plate number is a dead give-away as they was only used for imperforate stamps.
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Posted 06/12/2014   2:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add disi123 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If you closely examine the top block, (not a fake, but a legitimate EFO) you can see the blind perfs across the top of the bust running across the top of the forehead, most visibly in the bottom pair...

P.S. (IMHO) the bottom block is the crummiest re-perfing I've ever seen...
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