Making Your Own Stamp Perforations.

I can think of some guy in a dingy basement with a printer and perforating machine churning out his next ebay listing. Scary...very scary.

This guy has a promising career. Sewing machine perfect, LOL.

These would not fool anyone with any real knowledge of perforations if used on stamps. A quick comparison of these to any common stamp will show that. These will be too round and probably not match the gauge of most stamps as well.

Just think how easy it would be to produce..
1 - A misperf stamp.
2 - A different perforation on a large border stamp to make it a rare classification.
3 - Or even double perforation.

And yes you are correct TheStampNut, some of these will end up on ebay with extreme prices for the un-expecting buyer to fall for the trick...pity.

Has anybody ever heard of First Choice International, Inc.? A small company in Canada that repairs stamps.

http://home.golden.net/~hanssitt/SR...ome.html#How

Here is a paragraph on perforarations that I copied that will sure make you rethink re-perfed stamps, not sure if the Scrail test will catch this.

"Just for example, as part of our tool inventory, we have a set of custom designed and manufactured perforation dies consisting of 44 dies of varying spacing and an accompanying set of 22 hole punches. The perforation dies are manufactured in varying sizes starting with dies for a perforation of '7' (spacing of 0.1125 inches or 2.856mm) up to a perforation '16' (spacing of 0.0492 inches or 1.250mm). Our set of dies includes all dies as referred to by the Kiusalas USA and Canada Specialist Gauges. Sizes for our punches start at .023 inches (.711mm) in diameter up to .046 inches (1.168mm) in diameter in .001 inch (.025mm) increments."

Scary huh?

Scary..eh..?
haha

littleriverphil...You would have to be blind to not see that it was not quite a good restoration from the example they presented..Too many faults with their work, but to each his own I guess.

We are guessing as to their abitities with the tools they have on hand. This is a pretty slippery slope these folks work on, would they show an undetectable re perf? How would we know? And yeah, scary that someone has this type of equipment.

Here is their example of perforations added...Look at the far left arrow, you can see a border..Now look at all the other arrows, NO border.






Now look at the far right of the repaired stamp...Notice the lighter colour of the perfs..A dead give away.



For some one who wants his stamps to look good for his/her personal collection..Perfect.
Fixing stamps to sell..NOT SO PERFECT.

Looks too good. Needs more dirt.

Pretty though, all cleaned up.

Perforations made by perforators that used rotating perforating wheels for line perforated U.S. and Canadian stamps have an oval shape rather than a round shape. There are two types of perforators around that were used on U.S. stamps that can be found around. They were both made by Rosback. One is a Rosback rotary wheel perforator which was used to perforate U.S. Scott # 536 (perf gauge 12.5) and the other was a Rosback stroke perforator that was used to perforate U.S. high value revenue stamps from 1914 until 1958 (perf gauge 11.75).