Help With Identification

This is a $20 Probate revenue stamp. R98C and R99C (from what I see) are both perf 12. This stamp is perf 10. I measured it several times with two different gauges, so am confident with the 10

I have looked on a few online catalogs and cannot find this stamp with perf 10.

Any help would be welcome.

Those perforations do not look kosher. I await further comments, but it appears to be some sort of re-perf or hmm?

These are not authentic perforations. The stamp has been fraudulently perforated on all four sides. It may possibly be a perforated photocopy of the stamp (from an auction catalog?).

What is the paper like, it appears to be bright white? Does it appear to be of the time period of the stamp? Is the paper or design glossy? Can you post a photo of the back side?

There is no cancellation, which is not typical for this stamp. Possibly a poorly perforated proof?

Modern fake. All over ebay.

I find it interesting that a counterfeiter would go through all the trouble to copy an intricate stamp, and then screw up the project with this weird perforation. In other words, if the counterfeiter had taken the time to get the perforation correct (or simply not perforated it), this stamp would look a lot like R98C or R99C. Here's a question for the experts: Are counterfeit revenue stamps common? orstampman raises good questions about the condition of the paper, but based on the photo (and ignoring the perforation), this looks (to my untrained eye) like a real revenue stamp.

Paulsmoe
there are known first issue, match and medicine and other types of revenue counterfeits. Fakes abound among revenues because of attempts to create scarce varieties. Also it was common in that era to make copies ( not always marked as such) for sale so that collectors could fill in missing items in their sets. This was common in Europe at the time.
The difference is: counterfeit is an attempt to defraud the government.
Fake is an attempt to defraud collectors.
I think orstampman has it correct that is an altered catalog illustration.

No, these have been floating around for various postage and revenue stamps for several years now. Used to see them on ebay all the time. Not sure where they come from or why the perfs are so poor.