Query On Common Vietnamese Stamps

I'm too dumb to understand how perfs face left or right. And would it make a difference if the stamp covering the right side of your stamp, as I propose, were facing downward? (That is, gum-side up.)

Perforation always point the same way - outward from the stamp. So no, it would not matter if the stamp is upside down or not!

Peter

I should have made myself more clear, Peter. (Perhaps if I used exclamations marks as often as you I would achieve a better effect?) Going back to the original example, it seems to me that the imagined perfs are facing to the left. I don't see what others see obviously. The line of perforations is ragged, however, so I can see how folks might argue about the direction. It's clear, however, that the stamp in question is faded on the left side. This could have occurred only if that side were exposed to some environmental condition that caused the fading. Perhaps if the OP gave a better scan, I could be convinced to doubt myself. Where did the OP go to anyway?

"Where did the OP go to anyway?"

Gone to SpecSavers ?

Hahahhaa!

I've changed my mind on this.

After looking at Scotzm's scans again, I think he has provided the explanation. If his screening stamp, the one on the right, were lifted off it would appear that the perf outline pointed to the right.

Don

The answer seems to depend on which way the perfs are "pointing" - like scotzm I see the overlying stamp on the right:



The brownish discoloration extending to the margins on the left side of the stamp gives an illusion that this is the overlain part.