Cape Of Good Hope - Extra Margin..?

Hi guys..Do not know a lot about world stamps..Can you look at this Cape of Good Hope stamp and tell me if it is normal for such a wide margin..Thanks.

Wert,I believe that this is very normal for such an old stamp. I have seen lots of US stamps this way ( badly miscentered ) and I have a feeling Canadian stamps are the same. This one is not going to make you rich!

Peter

What..??..not rich..??..into the fire pit with it..haha...Thanks Petert4522
If it was centered it would look like this..weird..??

It looks like a wing margin. I can't seem to find the post where these were discussed in detail (it's around here somewhere). Basically, the stamps were printed in two blocks with a row of blank space between. The sheet was then perforated down the middle of the blank space to separate the two panes from the one printed sheet. The result is that the stamps on the edge have a large margin referred to as a wing margin.

Wing margins were not appreciated by collectors and many have had their wings clipped and/or been reperfed to look like "normal" stamps.

Smauggie, thank you. That was what I was looking for, but could not remember. And Wert, don't throw it in the fire pit! It is a very nice stamp even though it has been cancelled twice!

Peter

Wing Margins are discussed in this thread here. This might be the post Smauggie was referring to. Scroll down to StampStudy's post. Interesting.

https://goscf.com/t/16206&SearchTerms=wing+margin


-IBFS

Looks like a wing margin. Not 100% sure how common it is, but several stamps I once had in a Cape of Good Hope collection had that phenomenon.