Are They Rare PNC Items?

Jingi, It is hard to see what happened, but a missing peak is not an EFO. It could easily have torn off in a cancelling machine.

Peter

While this might be a bit off-topic from PNCs, I would like to bring up a tidbit from the October issue of U.S. Stamp News. The author of the Modern Varieties column mentions a die-cutting error on some 4704a (2014 Purple Heart) panes. In the left-hand column of these panes each stamp has a flat area at the top & bottom. It looks to me like a missing die-cut, but the author calls it a "rogue separator". I'm guessing that Scott will ignore this "error" ... so I suppose it will be considered a freak, even though it appears consistently across multiple panes. But it is an interesting-looking stamp.

`JLLebbert and Jingi, my main problem is that on my screen I can not see a missing die cut (peak). It is possible that half a peak is missing. These stamps are printed in a continuous sheet of paper called the web. If everything goes as planned, the knife separates the rows through a 'knoll', in principle a peak cut in half. If the row separation is not perfect this 'knoll' can occur anywhere on the stamp. In that case it is a freak!
I do not believe the piece of paper attached to the stamp gives it any more value; why don't you soak it off? Than the "missing perf" will become more visible.
Two publications are available from the PNC3 club addressing these varieties: ;Avery Die Cut Varieties" and "CCL Die Cut Varieties". These two loose leaf publications are full of color photographs of all the different possibilities.
Go to www.pnc3.org for more info.

Peter

Actually the link is www.pnc3.org.

Regards,
Stampalotapus

Cogno who?!

Jingi - missing peak likely torn off either when removed from the roll by the user, or eaten by the cancelling machine.

JL - The die cutting on those panes is shifted over by one column, so the 1st column of stamps is die cut with what was supposed to cut the left margin and the short uncut area is a small gap where the ends of the die cutting tool don't quite meet (the stamps are said to be a little wider too). As I recall, there was something that may have been like this on the 22c Uncle Sam #3259 and they gave the oddball stamps their own minor letter 3259a based on a small difference in die cut gauge, but I don't know if this new one is the exact same thing or not. (some 3259a had a small gap, while others did not - I;m not quite sure how they measure a gauge with a gap present and if the gap affected the measurement as gauge should only reflect the spacing of the continuous part in my opinion).

I had forgotten about the Uncle Sam stamps. As I recall, for most panes all the stamps were die-cut with the same gauge. But others had one row of stamps with a slightly different gauge. The strange thing was that the row varied within the panes, with some panes being rarer than others.
What did come to my mind was not an error, but rather the riverboats where a few thousand panes were produced with some of the die-cuts deliberately omitted.

Yes, the Uncle Sam variety could be found in any of the rows (but only one row on a particular pane, and no rows on most panes). I was lucky to find one of the rows in a PO, and used my find to trade for the other rows.