Napolean With Pinperfs??

Guys I think I found something nice here?Well I didnt,my wife noticed them so I reversed and scanned and well...what do you think?
Can anyone give me a positive ID on this stamp from someone please?
This is getting wild here guys! LOVE this stuff and I am hooked on stamps big time now..I think I got 8 hrs sllep total all weekend! hahhaa

No pin-perfs here, just damaged on all four sides.

Not Napoleon either.

You know that I read that way back in those days they often cut stamps with scissors and that shows how primitive things were back then to me... and you see this all the time,even on stamps I see up for auction for big bucks..I myslef really like the looks and cant see why your calling that damaged as this is the way it was done back then alot
Thats not Napolean?Oops sorry about that one,,now I have to see just who the heck this is! Is the stamp a France atleast?

You are correct. This was often done. From a philatelic perpective this is a less desirable condition for the stamp. I believe this is a stamp from Italy (though I don't have my catalog with me at the moment).

that stamp is from BELGIUM

that stamp has a picture of King Leopold I from 1867. Due to the condition it is worthless. The only damaged stamps that are collectible are early FRANCE with a small pin hole in the center , many of them have the hole filled in to defraud collectors .But a few of us collect them because it tells us that those pinhole stamps at one time before 1900 ,that they were put up for sale at the French outdoor stamp bourse in the park in Paris at the first market place for stamps .No extra value but a neat thing to know........

sorry -didn't explain that they were mounted on boards with little pins stuck thru the center so customers can view them at the park as they walk around to see what was for sale .

And just for the record, this is what pin-perfs look like:



The perforations are made with solid pins that pierce the paper, but don't punch out holes. Not to be confused with defective normal perforators that fail to punch the paper out properly.

(These stamps are the 1899 ¼ Anna rose-pink of Kishangarh State, by the way.)