What's Going On With This R13c?

I just received a CDV with R13c on the reverse. The stamp has some horizontal lines on the right side through "CENTS" that look like they may have been part of the original printing. Can anyone tell me what they are? A double transfer? A cracked plate? Something else? Nothing at all? Thanks.

Something similar occurs on some of the Transportation Coils, especially on the 32 cent Ferryboat 2466b. The variety is called "Cancelled 9" or "Scratches through 1900" and is found on position 1R ( the stamp to the right of the plate numbered stamp ) of the "Bronx Blue" color error on plate 5. On the Ferryboat it looks maybe like some scratches but it could also be that a tool fell on the plate during etching. Yours is much more pronounced, and I wonder if it is a Constant Plate Variety?
And what is a CDV?

Peter

Peter, a CDV is a "carte de visite," which was a Civil War era photograph about the size of a playing card. For a period of time, they were taxed, hence many have revenue stamps on the reverse. Here is an example, front and back.

Thank you Rusty. It is a pretty card, and the stamp is cancelled beautifully! By the way, did you notice the date is 9/11?

Peter

Given there's no traces of cancel ink on either side of the stamp
on the card, (and what appears to be the edge of a secondary cancel)
at the bottom of the stamp, it appears to have been faked...

It's not a fake, cancels were often done in the sheet like a precancel. Especially for something sensitive like a photograph. These are mostly $5-$10 items, why would anyone bother to fake them?

rev, how did this work? The stamps were purchased on this date by the previous shop owner?

revcollector, are you saying that what I'm seeing are traces of a cancel? That makes sense because I know blue cancels were fairly common, but I guess I was only focused on how closely the color seemed to match the color of the stamp.

rusty, I think rev is referring to the CDV.

Ah, I get it. Thanks, KGB. Anyway, add cancel to my list of possibilities.

Not a cancel. Could be plate scratches or debris.

Revenue stamps affixed to CDvs were, more often than not, precanceled, even the manuscript cancels. Why? CDVs were frequently stacked. If the cancel ink were not fully dried, it would offset onto the next CDV.

It's probably the one major area where a cancel not tying the stamp is not a factor in determining legitimacy.

The one exception is revenue bisects on CDVs. If the bisect is not tied via cancel, and there is no element of the cancel matching the name or initials of the photographer in question, I won't touch it (at least not for more than about $5). I've seen far too many fakes out there. An uncanceled bisect on a CDV has to be viewed with strong suspicion.

revenue, if you don't mind, would you explain about the precancel in more detail? In this case, the cancel is the address of the photography studio and former owner's name, along with a date. Did shop owners order their own cancels?

The law requiring the use of revenue stamps provided that "the person using or affixing the [stamp] shall write thereupon the initials of his name, and the date upon which the same shall be attached or used," although the proprietary stamps (on matches, medicines, etc.) did not need to be cancelled if they were affixed so that the stamp would be destroyed in opening the package.
Some merchants had handstamps made so that they didn't need to write their initials each time they used a stamp. Some merchants hand-wrote their cancels, some used printed cancels.

Thanks, SPQR!

To expand a bit on SPQR's post ...
the stamp cancellation on the first photo in this thread did not follow the regulations at all - missing all the required elements, while the one from the Hopper/Grotecloss studio obeyed more than required to include the full business name and address. Either way, the revenue tax was paid.
One of the major differences in postal vs revenue uses is WHO canceled the stamps. Average-Joe-user affixed his own revenue stamps and canceled them, so the expectation of revenue stamps always being "tied" cannot be the same. Yes, the merchants would have to buy their own cancels.

And you, too, John!