Is This 899 An Efo?

My batting average is 0 but I live in wishful thinking land and I am hoping that I have finally succeeded in finding an EFO stamp in my collection.

Looks like your average stays the same.....
What would make this a EFO???

This notch is the inner surround is very interesting.

I think an EFO for sure.

1st Stamp, no notch . . 2nd Stamp, notch in inner surround

For the holes in the head, who ya gonna call? CSI !

you can call it what you want....but...
stamp is NOT a EFO!

Stampfan9,
What do *you* see that is unusual about this stamp?
That way we can all look at the specific point you see and make meaningful input.

It's either a blotch of dirt or paper inclusion, or maybe even
black ink spatter... if it was a 'notch' the area would be white
or green...

Well, upon closer zooming and examination and stuff I see my noticed notch is indeed a different colour than the green ink of the stamp. Ooops. Looked good for a second there.

Better scan needed if possible I guess for my poor old eyes.

Ah, the excitement of stamp collecting.


What about the white around the upper letter P of Postage? Is that a pieve of paper on the scanner or stamp stampfan9?


Maybe I missed what the question was about actually?

Looks like a scrape...