2 Cent Imperforate Coil?

Is this what is meant by imperforate coil? Thanks for your knowledge in advance.

No, not really. The square holes are the perforations, private ones. Look in the Scott catalog under "Vending and Affixing machine perforations". The one you show is a Shermack type.

Peter

Thanks as always Peter!

Still digging through these stamps and learning

UpNort, You may want to go back and re-read the replies/links on the 1 cent stamp with Schermack III perforations you posted a few days ago. This is essentially the identical question.

This is probably an offset; the broken left numeral suggests a type lV, V or Va.

revcollector, does not the ink on the reverse side point toward this being a flat plate printing type, rather than an offset? I would lean toward a 409 or a 482 depending on a watermark or not.

Below are examples of imperf coils. They literally are the same as other coils EXCEPT without perforations. The USPS did not make very many types (they eventually went with perforated coils only) and most are flat plate Washington-Franklins.

These are not to be confused with imperf stamps that were sent to vending and affixing companies (like Schermack--your stamp above), that were then privately perforated for use in their specific machines.

Photos courtesy of The Philatelic Foundation's Certification Database.


horizontal coils are designated by letter 'h': 343h


vertical coils are designated by letter 'v': 344v