Nice Netherlands 1924-29

Here's a few from my large Netherlands collection and I found a few nicely priced ones in here..one is nicely valued used at I think it was $80.00 or $90.00 in 2002 catalog,,so that made my night here over $200 bucks worth and maybe worth more if any oddities or nice cancells would be more then,,anyone see anything off the wall here by chance??What about that 2 1/2 cent green stamp on bottom left?
Thanks for your help and time folks!

These are lovely stamps depicting Queen Wilhelmina, but I think they are all the common, and inexpensive versions issued from 1924-26 and 1926-39. I don't see any of the values or colours associated with the higher value issues of 1924. And none of them have the syncopated perforations that would give them extra value.
Pretty stamps, but common I'm afraid.

Thanks so much James,I didnt realize I was looking at syncopated price listings..dang it,,what the heck are syncopated perforations James?

UFOAIRMAIL

If you look at the British "Machin" stamps, you will see the 'syncopated' perforation. They appear like a chunk was taken away from the regular perforations but will also notice that they have one evenly on both sides of any given stamp.

Hope this helps

Chimo

Bujutsu

Syncopated perfs are also mentioned at the beginning of the Netherlands listing in Scotts. It will (at least in my edition) show you three types of syncopated perforations.

UFO, Don't , let it throw you..everyone here learns by their mistakes, here I jacked a couple of syncopated perfs from my album as an visual aid !! they are kind of small perhaps you can enlarge them or see the difference in the perfs.

Thank you everyone!

What I forgot to mention in my last posting here is that the 'syncopated' perfs on the Netherlands stamps are practically reverse to those on the Machin stamps.

Glad to see an image in here with them as well.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Ah... Syncopated perforations. An interesting subject. Most stamps with syncopated perfs have higher value than the normal version, but only a few are really rare. A long time ago I made a page about it for my personal website. It never got much further than an introduction (lack of time etc.). I will quote it here:

The syncopated perforations of 1925 to 1933, known in Dutch as Automaatzegels or Roltandingzegels. The relative obscurity of this subject outside the Netherlands (only in Danzig the same system was used for some time) can be explained for a part by the casual manner in which they are listed in the Scott catalogue. I hope this page may serve as a useful resource.
Why syncopated perfs?
The specially perforated stamps were meant for use in stamp vending machines and automatic stamp applying machines (the socalled POKO's). These machines were introduced a few years earlier in the 1920s and used coils of stamps made out of strips from normal sheets. The strips were connected by glueing the selvedges together.
Soon after these makeshift coils were introduced they proved to be unsuitable. They broke too easily. As an alternative the syncopated perforation was invented by simply removing some of the perforating pins. The result is a very distinctive perforation pattern.

Jan-Simon

Those are very nice. Are there separate Scott numbers for the syncopated perfs and non synco. perfs? I recently acquired a Minkus album for the
Netherlands which goes up to I think 1995. Most of the material was in mounts and has been removed but the mounts are in place and I'd like to
start filling it up. Are there any specialty catalogs for the Netherlands?

Scott has assigned subnumbers to the syncopated perfs. For instance, the normal stamps as shown above are Sc.# 142-193, the syncopated ones are 142a-193a and in some cases "b" or "c".
The Dutch society of stamp dealers issues a yearly special catalogue, called the NvPH Speciale Catalogus. It also contains all Dutch colonies until their independence.

Here is a clearer view of them from an example I'd posted last year:

Those are very nice . How can I get one of those NVPH catalogs? Do I have to join the society?

many dealers sell them. For instance: http://www.kosel.com/en/sh/nvph.htm

I am really excited that I can finally add these pages to my worldwide collection . Very few general collectors have these stamps .....40 years of searching has come to a end with these pages ,sure they are aviable thru stamp auctions but you got to pay hundreds to get a decent showing or the complete sets .