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All Forums Category: General Philatelic Discussions (Non Country Specific) Forum: Errors, Freaks & Oddities (EFO)

What Would Make A Stamp Look Like This?

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Posted 03/27/2023 3:21 pm

The stamp came straight out of 1940's book. Hinged. No fluids has ever been used that I know of. I can see Wm 2 on the reverse. What do you think caused this?

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Posted 03/27/2023 3:51 pm

Did you acquire the stamp in the early 1920s?

If not, what causes you to write:

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No fluids has ever been used that I know of.

The photo is not clear. Maybe another stamp or paper got stuck to it at some time. However, it looks like the stamp has been damaged by some liquid, possibly a solvent.

Edit: Maybe Don, our moderator, can say whether acidity of the preceding album page can have caused this.

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Edited by NSK - 03/27/2023 4:00 pm

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Posted 03/27/2023 3:52 pm

Either a solvent, or a mint (gummed) stamp was on top of it at some time, and was roughly removed.

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Posted 03/27/2023 6:40 pm

Per NSK and Partime, this is probably from another stamp being stuck on top and removed. This is not uncommon for stamps and gum of the German Inflation issues.

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Posted 03/27/2023 7:19 pm

I used to have a one-inch-thick stack of full sheets of these issues that were melded together into a solid mass of philatelic dunnage. Peel some apart and BANG you have face damage as shown in the OP's stamp. OR it could be a RARE printing error worth bazillions of dollars!

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Posted 03/27/2023 7:47 pm

Bad husbandry.

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