Small Queen 3c Squared Circle Cancel.

I was going through about a hundred 3c small Queens when I noticed
that 2 separate singles each had parts of the LINDSAY postmark.
When I placed them side by side they matched perfect. Too bad someone
separated them after soaking.

That is amazing to find matching stamps in such an old batch!

Beautiful LG,
love those squared circle pmks.

I think we should feel fortunate both halves exist.

The same thing happened to me a few years ago
with some revenues from the Canton of Geneva
Both were floating B.o.b

I've had these stamps in a packet for a long time and finally put them
on a Hagnar. The cancels really stand out on these bright colours.

After looking at the pair together I was thinking how good they must
have looked on cover.
The Lindsay Ontario squared circle is one of the most common ones.
Unitrade rates it a Rarity Factor of one.

Nice nice nice. I just love it.

Litho: are you sure they are a matched pair?

Hi lithograving
Was looking at these stamps of yours and I really don't think they are a match or were even attached to each other.

Look at the picture..The one on the left measures 11.8 cm and the one on the right measures 12.6 cm.

If they were once together, the perfs should be even....IMO

wow good eye wert. Yup I agree...they were never attached in the first place.

By golly wert, you might be right.

Still looks like the cancel lines up pretty well
over both stamps though.

Perhaps some devious character in 1897 affixed two separate
stamps perf to perf to fool a collector a hundred years
in the future

Yes good eye wert, but to be fair, I don't think Lithograving was suggesting that these two stamps were originally attached together. I thing he was suggesting they were together, side by side on the same cover. The original sender, back in 1897, could have had two stamps from separate sheets which didn't have exactly matching perfs.
Just sayin'

You know what lithograving, I looked at these stamps with every SPM and Vector program I had to analyse the heck out of then, but it came down to a simple ruler.

But, you are correct lithograving, they do look like the cancellation lines up big time.

Yes jamesw, I think you are right, because I thought he suggested that they were originally perfed together...I 1/2 stand corrected...

12cm is quite a large stamp...I thought those stamps measure about 2 cm wide...I am confused....

Litho: the devil made me do it.

Gilles le timbre....Don't be confused...I just used a ruler to show the difference between stamps, not a true measurement, just an analysing tool.

cynical...See what you started....

That's so cool! I also have some Spanish stamps that I have "reunited". Might make for an interesting thread by itself.

Earlier in this thread, it was said "If they were once together, the perfs should be even...." (i.e. each stamp would be the same width).

Early perforating (including the Small Queen stamps) was not as accurate as it is today.

Small Queen stamps from adjacent columns will regularly be of different widths. See this scan:



The numbers are measurements in millimetres. None of the adjacent stamps are the same width.

Notice the width of the stamp in the second last column ... that is where "jumbos" come from.