1935 National Parks, Special Printing, Imperforte Ungummed

Trying to determine if a stamp should be where the attached blank is.

I welcome all feedback on this.

Regards,

Mike L.

NO...that is the selvedge

What you show is Scott 758, from the ungummed, imperforate special printings as you describe in your title line. The width of the selvage and the lack of words printed in the selvage prove it cannot be from 750 or 770. I don't understand Kevin's response.

This is one of the few situations where keeping the selvage intact is helpful in positively identifying the stamp.

Do you know what selvedge is???

I know what selvedge is and I don't understand Kevin's response either. I see an imperforate stamp as John said...

Mike asked, is there supposed to be a stamp in that blank space?
Kevin's replied, no, that space is the selvage.
Simple.

Oh, derp. I thought that was the cover the stamp was stuck on. I was so confused. Lol. That's all one piece of paper. Makes much more sense now.

Glad to see this come up. I have refrained from filling those spaces.
As I am understanding it, the Un-gummed special printing specimens need to have a large selvage. Otherwise if it is trimmed off; it is un-discernable from the other Un-gummed imperforates.
Is this correct?

thank you.


In this issue....3c National Park #758.
Without a selvedge (what I have called it and spelled it for years) it is the same a a #770 ....
which can be trimmed from a S/S .....meaning UNGUMMED!
The #750 is the same, but has GUM!
We are talking about SINGLE stamps....
selvedge/gum on each is the difference factor.

Yeah, I apologise, Kevin. I thought I was looking at an imperf that had been very closely trimmed to leave no white and then stuck on a cover, and someone had taken a picture and cropped it very oddly. I understand now what you were saying. That is, indeed, selvage. :)

It was the curtness of Kevin's original post that had me confused. I understand the special printings quite thoroughly. Not sure why a mountain got made out of a molehill.

Let's move on. If a picture is worth 1000 words, here is a picture lifted from ebay, showing a full sheet of 200 of Scott 758. The stamp starting this post is cut from the lefthand column of a similar sheet, (although not the 10th or 11th stamp down, since those two positions would show the arrow).



The presence or absence of gum is not a 100% indicator, since imperforate sheets of the National Parks could be sent in for gumming, and conversely, singles cut from the souvenir sheets could have lost their gum over the years. So gum is not so simple. Fortunately, yours is identifiable from the front due to the selvedge as already noted.