Hello people, I have recently visited a friend who was remodeling and he found this stamp. not knowing what it was I did a little research but cant figure out exactly what it is. The perforations from what I can see are 11x13? It looks as if it was stamped with something but can't quite make it out? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you well in advance.
Looking closer at the stamp, it has a 4-bar handstamp cancellation that ends at the top with the letters "EEK" (as in "CREEK"?) and the bottom looks like "PA" (Pennsylvania).
According to Jim Forte's Postal History website there are 194 possibilities with that ending, so it's anyone's guess what the original cancellation may have read. A common stamp, but just another reason to show how we lose so much of postal history when separating the stamp from its cover.
It appears that you have counted the number of perforation holes on the horizontal and vertical sides and reported that. However, if you are looking in a catalog and seeing numbers for the guage of the perforations, you need to know that there is a standard for that. Perforations are counted according to the number of tips or holes PER 2 CENTIMETERS. To measure them properly requires the use of a perforation gauge.
There have been many discussions on SCF about measuring perforations, so you could search this forum for "perforations" and learn more than you ever wanted to know.
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Posted 03/16/2015 11:39 pm
