Found this one and was wondering if it's real or what. Can't tell if it's water marked or not. Assuming it's from a postcard or a reprint or fake. Except that the line on top looks like the bottom of the stamp above this one. Pretty lines on the back though.
You have the 1872 Hidalgo issue of Mexico. It was printed with a Moiré pattern on the back. You will need to check the watermark. In the Scott catalog, it will either be #83 or #95.
Found one on ebay with the same design on the whole back of the stamp but no explanation yet for the design. Maybe it was a security feature back then.
For the Mexico stamps I was referring to, the syncopated perfs are different from the type utilized by the Dutch. On the Mexican stamps, they alternated between perforation "hole size" -- large hole, small hole, large hole... The difference between hole sizes very obvious, even after stamps were separated.
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Posted 04/15/2016 4:38 pm
