Interesting Transfer

One side damaged, one not: Then why not this scenario: The stamp was stuck into a different album with scotch tape which stained the stamp. It was later removed from its original mounting and re-hinged with the normal hinge into the current album. The hinge you show does not seem to exhibit any of the staining seen on the stamp, so it seems unlikely the staining came from the current hinge.

(I know you don't like any tape-based explanations, but I'll stick with them until you can explain how you definitively identify bacteria and fungus damage for us.)

Stick with them... I get it

John Becker, I would say that you are absolutely correct. From the pic, it has that look exactly.

Is that a joke ... fungus have nucleus bacteria not. Before switch to Computer Science I study Limnology for 3 years at University and Freshwater Algae study have been a passion since 30 years, so I have thousand of slide of different algae. Do you need also to know the difference between an algae, a fungi and a cyanobacteria....


John no offence but you are in the ditch, the hinge as the same size as the stamp image transfer

I never said it was a fungus damages, quite the opposite, I said the transfer was not the result of the fungus infection. The fungus happen after. You have 2 different things here. The fungus grow in left over of the chemical that create the transfer . The fungus is a secondary effect.


It's hard to hold them together for the scan, but it's obvious, and what are the chance the scotch tape will have the same size of the hinge...lol If I rotate a little bit the hinge we have a perfect match


Keep in mind.. I'm the only person who have perform direct observations on the problem. So unless someone come here to make observation, I'm stick a non scotch tape approach.

nothing

I don't joke on this site.
You show us only the stamp and push back at the various replies.
You then show us the hinge out of context with the stamp and push back at our replies.
Then you finally show the hinge in-place and tell us your academic background and push back some more.
If you want useful help on this site, then it is important that you provide full information up-front as to everything you know about an item.
You have wasted a lot of the board's time be revealing your info in dribs and drabs.

lol, what a joke, I lost board time...it's a hobby forum. Do you realize that we are just a bunch of peoples talking about stamps and have a lot of time to lost ?

again you see it the wrong way, I provide at different time facts because peoples continue to insist on the scotch tape idea, not the opposite. Since first post I know it'S not scotch tape and I don,t see the need to expose it until you come on with the idea I don't know the difference between a hinge and scotch tape and bacteria and fungus. All I did after was to search for evidence and show them as I collect them.

I guess the question I have is why try and preserve it ? Looks like a flat plate perf 10 which would either be a 424 or 462 depending if it has a watermark. Either of these can be found in much better condition for a buck or two.

look at the last photo I post, it was crated 24 minutes ago, do you think I hold this info since the start.

I can't believe it......




How many time I will say it, I think it's the forth time. I don't need this stamp for my collection ( I have it already, perfectly centred with gum ) It's the transfer reaction I want to preserve as reference, for show or whatever reason

I think the confusion come from peoples thinking the stamps was on my Album. the stamp come from old albums I purchased a long time ago , I was emptying the album of the leftover for put in world packets for eventually sell. I have US stamps in 2 albums, my Lighthouse , so hingeless and my Scott Int that I use mounts for that period of time.

Actually let come back on the watermark difference between a 424 and a 462. The original owner may have use the popular at the time carbon tetrachloride to see the watermark and have not wait enough to hinge it in the album. The tetra will have dissolve the ink before evaporate since it trap between a layer of ink and the hinge. That support my theory