#246 Very Weird Like Father X-Mas.

hey everyone , we all good I trust.
my Scott 246 looks a little different .
may the experts elaborate a little of what you think it is.
please

Probably a bit of foreign matter adhering to the paper that subsequently fell off, taking the ink with it.

It is difficult to determine without examining this stamp in person. It may be a scuff, or may be foreign material present, or what Dudley opined.

hi guys @ orstampman an dudley
thanks and much appreciated for the response ...
i think examining the stamp will help but I don't see any scruff,
like it looks like the paper is normal .. I mean it doesn't look like anyone took a needle and scratched it , and looking closely we can see bits or the ink there. there is also no loose fibre on that area or else where.
and the foreign matter thing , I cant see any sign of anything stuck to it.
guys im only saying what I see . I trust you'll opinion greatly.
maybe a few more close up??

if you need more pictures , let me know thanks

I would ditto what's already been postulated.

BUT... Father Christmas, I think not... Uncle Sam would be closer I think.

Folks seem to be overlooking the white spaces on the jacket in the area where a breast pocket would be.

Closeup scans of all three areas would help. If from foreign matter on the surface of the paper when printed, some level of indent often occurs as well as some level of haloing at the edges of the white area.

Again, close, with a loop, examination of the white areas would be needed to rule out ink removal by adhesion but, given the size and orientation of the white spaces, scuffing seems very remote.

Lastly something could have touched the inked plate and was removed or fell off but took the ink from the plate in those areas with it.

IN my opinion it appears to be a beat up stamp with scuffs across the entire face of the printed area.

Edit for clarification

Non-Birthing Person X-Mas

@ Parcelpostguy, thank you for your suggestion I think you do make some good pointers .
i will add some more close up later today. thank you very much

Something was adhered to the face and pulled off. That is apparent. It is a damaged stamp. The end.

After re-viewing the stamp image, I think rogdcam may be correct. There are many parts of the stamp that have this adherence/ink-absence (note many spots on Franklin's face), so an overlay removal may have done either/both, perhaps being attached to the backside of a partially gummed stamp, and then attempted to be separated.

Personally, I have found "scuffing" difficult to re-produce via scan.
Under a decent magnifier, one can note the damaged fibres on the stamp surface.

Also, where a collector has tried to separate 2 stamps, adhered via humidity, and the lower stamp has part of the face image lifted.
Easily discernible, from a genuine stamp flaw.

"Scuffing" may be too strong a word here.

Although it may be poor methodology to speculate without the stamp in hand, the effect looks more like a Post-It note was used to pull off random fibers across the entire surface, and thus post-use damage rather than a production EFO.