US 17 Extreme Flyspecking

Well, maybe not extreme, but ever since I got my new USB microscope, I've been looking closer at my stamps. Previously, I showed my US 17 and was asking about an odd line at the bottom in this thread:

https://goscf.com/t/29693#29693

We decided that it was a Scanner jiggle. Here is the original stamp



The top left corner now looks interesting to me. Are the lines shown normal for this issue?



Finally, I see a note in Scotts that states there is a small premium for a stamp that is "Not recut in lower right corner". Is this such an example?



Thanks for your opinions.

I know that years ago Mortimer Neinken published a short study of the types and plates for the 12c. If this sort of thing is of interest to you, you might keep an eye out for one on ebay or in a literature sale.

Are you going to treat us to another look at that section of "scanner jiggle" or "scanner chatter" or whatever you chose to call it? I wonder how the USB scope sees it. That tantalizing little snatch in your last pic shows a line thickening just getting started and makes me wonder.

Sure Essayk ... ask and ye shall receive. The bottom line, or at least most of it, as viewed from my USB Scope does show a smidgen of thickening in the middle. Any ideas?



(Sorry. Didn't mean to be secretive. It just seems the scanner, when set at almost any setting, sometimes "jumps" and gives a grey area where I am not quite sure what I am seeing. The new USB is a lot easier to focus in and see those areas.)

Partime, you could have a shifted transfer or a retouch as they are called in the re-entry world..see link below...Just my opinion.
Robert


AREN'T USB MICROSCOPES FUN...

http://www.re-entries.com/terms.html#ret

http://www.re-entries.com/terms.html#shift

The Neinken booklet on the 12-cent 1851, like so much other great information, is available for free at the US Philatelic Classics Society's electronic library http://www.uspcs.org/resource-cente...ic-library/:

http://d2jf3tgwe889fp.cloudfront.ne...kmarked2.pdf