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Is This Band Of Machin Stamps Known As A Misplace Right ?

 
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Posted 06/27/2013   08:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add 241079 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Here I have a band of 5 Queen Elizebeth Machin stamps. Is this band of stamps known as a misplace right?

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Posted 06/27/2013   09:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi 241079! I do not understand your question, but the strip of stamps you show looks like either from a booklet or a coilstrip! Peter
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Posted 06/27/2013   09:39 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 241079 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
basicly they are not printed center to the perfs the print is more over to the left perfs on every stamp.
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Posted 06/27/2013   09:47 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
OK, I understand your question better now! The stamps are just not very well centered. It probably makes them worth less, I am afraid. Peter
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Posted 06/27/2013   09:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 241079 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
LOL OK YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT STAMP COLLECTING THEN IT MAKES THEM AN ERROR BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AS THEY SHOULD BE.
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Posted 06/27/2013   12:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Londonbus1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
241079,

Try not to write in capital letters, it is akin to shouting !

Peter was quite correct in that it is just poor centering as coil strips often are. A coil strip such as this is worth about face value anyway so no mark-up whichever way you look at it.

It is SG No. X843l

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Posted 06/27/2013   12:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ldhaber to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You are looking at a strip of stamps from a multi value, The Gibbons catalog number is X841n and has a catalog value of £3.50.

Your stamps are slightly off center but that does not make them an error but rather an indication of lower quality, ie price.

This coils was introduced when decimal currency was first used by the RM and they were dispensed from a vending machine by inserting either 5 new pence or an old 1 shilling coin.

There are a number of varieties of this strip having to do with different coatings and adhesives, but the essential point is that this is very common and not worth very much. But as a feature of your collection there is a lot more depth to be plumbed if you cared to.

-Larry
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Posted 06/27/2013   1:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Londonbus1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Larry is correct, it's X841n !
I typed in the incorrect number, silly me !
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Posted 06/27/2013   5:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 241079 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The thing is I was never questioning value.
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