Show Your US 1857 Perforated Stamps

A fraudulently perforated proof.

That was one of my guesses, a 41P3 perforated and gummed. Or a P2 that is closer to stamp paper, but the P2 on wove paper is $350 CV rather than $90 for a P3 on India paper. I wish the seller had pictured the back side to help confirm.

Incidentally the seller offered it as a "26 orange red OG H CV $65". The only accurate part of that description may be the "H".

It is clearly not a 26 because of the outer framelines.

The scarlet color of this stamp is much brighter than the orange red or bright orange red in Skinner's color chart.

And certainly not OG if it is a reperfed regummed proof.

Yet someone paid $145 for it. Hopefully as a novelty for their reference collection.