Franklin 1 Cent "Coil" Stamp

Hello! Don't want to waste anyone's time but just wanted some opinions on this one. I'm assuming this is a good trim job? It does look to have a few green specks at the bottom edge. What is that? Thanks for your time!

On reverse pic it appears to show a perf remnant right of center at bottom so I would vote for trimmed.

Dave

Thanks for responding, Dave!

The top 'cut' seems to be sloping down to the left!

Peter

Thank you, Peter! So is it safe to assume any straight edges that seem to slope or have other angles are suspect for being trimmed? I take it that the legit coils have very straight edges?

The specs at bottom are the remnant on the guide line between the panes. It would be a natural straight edge at bottom before the top margin was scissor'd. Straight edge stamps are favorite's of coil fakers because only one edge needs to be faked and they often have bigger natural margins.

I'm with Petert4522, the straight edges are not parallel with one another, and as Dave Drie states there does seem to be a possible perf remaining.

All the above are good indicators of a "Trim".

Regards,
Stampalotapus

Where you see the guideline remnant the stamp was issued with a straight edge. The little "dimple" is not a perf remnant. However, the sloping top line is most certainly a concern signal that the stamp was not issued like that. If the slitter for a genuine coil was off by that much it would be cutting into the design on subsequent stamps very soon (or heading off into the margins as the case may be). The point is that the machinery could not operate consistently unless the cutters were set in parallel. So parallelism in the cut is an important criterion.

Here's another from the few I dug up. I'm assuming same thing?

Maverick, on this one the right hand side is bowed. At least you're getting a whole collection of these!

Peter

I know! I don't why the person who owned these prior did this to so many of these. What enjoyment did he get out of making fake stamps?? Must have liked to dream!

essayk has it. It should be parallel. I think the "dent" on the bottom is just a dent. Notice the guide line is unimpacted.

The 321 isn't even a good fake. The stamp isn't wide enough and the sides aren't even straight.

Jack Kelley

Some of these people just murder these stamps! Hopefully, nobody got suckered on these at one time or another!