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European perforating machines, 10 different sized first issue revenues, lots of time pressure to get the stamps out all conspire to cause a lot of wild perforations. |
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Still, seems like there was an awful lot of "meh, close enough" going on at the time.
Jim
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Interesting but not that uncommon. No way is the stamp worth 90x catalog. |
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We should not be surprised by these printing freaks. We know that Butler & Carpenter had difficulty perforating the stamps, leading to the delivery of imperf and and part perf stamps. They did not wish to waste a lot of otherwise well printed stamps.
Let's also not forget that in the 1890's a New York stamp dealer acquired a perforator to enhance his stock of first issue revenues with stray perforations, adding to the myth of bad perforating practices at Butler & Carpenter. |
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Bart,
I saw that row of perfs along the right side also. Yes, I agree that one should not have been missed. |
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 Maybe we should send him a note to be more careful when he trims off the perfs to completely remove them? |
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I would never accuse anyone of doing so unless I KNEW that they did it. And some people are such newbies that they won't know, but I do not at all believe that is the case here. |
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Looking at that stamp carefully actually shows perts on three sides, which might set a record for an imperf. |
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The original R3c is still available with no bids if anyone is interested in this "radical" misperf  -Willie |
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