Interesting Pair Of 212

notice the lack of perfs on the bottom of this pair of 212?

Looks like it was caused by a defective perf roller, neat item!

It looks like Franklin is showing his... oh forget it

looks like it was double-perfed at the botom, but a perf got missed, and so the second layer of perfing was left attached at that point. Just conjecture on my part.

this is one that came off a cover that I talked about when I first joined.. some stuff my dad took out of an old mill in Lewiston Maine. The cover was garbage, so I removed the stamp, actually it fell off on it's own.

question is, how unique is it? I have never seen one before..

It is more common than you would expect. A bent perforator pin caused this misaligned perforation. While I have never seen on on the 212 I have several stamps with the same misaligned perforations on other tamps.

Here is a cool site that reviews some strange perforations including the bent pin.

http://www. (20140417) Site Not Allowed .com/articles/an-interview-with-stamp-collector-john-hotchner-on-philatelic-errors-freaks-and-oddities/

Hello John, many thanks for sharing this great web!!

Good to see your still active. I am still loving those covers you sent me. I am into Panda's now too.

I all along absorb great knowledge of USA stamps at here, and maybe you will find that my English language have a good progress.

The Rodster qualifies for BC citizenship....