Something You Don't See Every Day

Does anyone have a similar pair?

Value together = hundreds.

Value separated = nearly worthless.

Jim

Few se-tenant pairs are likely to exist.

Australia 2013

Singles are not very scarce. That pair is another matter.

I have seen a pane of the one cent stamp, but missing the bottom row.

None of the positions have a three cent denomination entered by error.

The se-tenant pair I showed doesn't appear to be the result of a freak trimming, of say a one cent pane on the right and the three cent pane on the left, resulting in this pair.

There is no question of them being a normal pair; there is no patching of the perforations between them.

So, can anyone propose a situation where this pair could occur?

Jim

p.s. I believe this pair to be unique.

I was scratching my head, why you were calling them se tenant.
I had not realised the two values were adjoined.

So now I see the uniqueness.
They are listed with commentary in "The Field guide to Cinderellas Stamps of Canada"
Edition 1, Page 218 "college Stamps" Catalogue CC8610

3 values 1c,2c,3c CV$10 each

They were used to teach skills of proper addressing and franking in correspondence.

No mention of the se tenant pair.

I would encourage you to email the webmaster R.G.Lafreniere, and have your example included in forthcoming editions of the Catalogue.

I assume that you tried to plate the one cent to the pane and could not do so. Therefore either the bottom row had some se-tenants or there was another pane or panes that did.

Hi Rod222,

A decade ago, I wrote a 236 page book all about college and school stamps. At the time, the only reference to a se-tenant pair like this was in a Springer catalog (mentioned, not illustrated, which generally meant that Springer had seen the pair but didn't own it.)

I was in contact with the majority of the college stamp collectors at the time, and no one had a copy of this pair.

Since then, I picked up this pair, and have seen no others.

Were the 3 cent/1 cent combination to be a regularly appearing thing in at least one pane, then surely more than one pair would have survived; this is what I'm trying to determine here.

Thanks,

Jim

Cheers Jim.
I'd still email Mr. Lafreniere (Ron)
He may have come across them in his years of study.
Good Luck.

PS: agree with revcollector, the sheets were of 100 pieces. (10 rows of 10 labels)

Ergo, it has to be located on the last row, or, perhaps anywhere on a sheet of 3c cent labels.

With respect, and opinion, the pair can only be unique, if they originate from a proof pair, or the last remaining se tenant pair in existence.

If they come from a sheet, odds would suggest there is another pair/s hiding away somewhere.
Nonetheless, a special item.

Given how they were used, it's little short of miraculous that even the one pair exists. And the fact that the last row of the pane is missing might indicate that it was removed because it was different or unusual. If it was simply because the students began using it then why would they have stopped there and not broken it up completely?

Agreed.
Here is another hypothetical.

They existed in sheets of mixed values.

Business School Students would be required to......

"Draft letters to the following three businesses, address and sign the correspondence, as if you were the Manager's secretary, fold and seal the letters in the envelopes, and adhere the correct franking from the stamps supplied."

The 3 business, may have been in differing locales, requiring differing franking stamps.

A little clarification:

Note that these are revenue stamps, not postage stamps. They were thus used on documents, not letters.

Below is a portion of this entry from my book.

Jim

Lovely work Jim, great research.
Curious.
With the sheet image, how do you ascertain the bottom row is missing?
Could it not be also the top row?

Hi

It's hard to tell from the image that I posted, sorry. Maybe the below one is better. The top of the pane is imperf., while the bottom is perforated, indicating that the bottom row was detached.

Jim

Ah! Thanks, Jim.
Your Japanese seal monograph, is it for sale?
Cheers.

Hi

The pages shown are from a large catalog. The title is at the bottom of the pages. They're available from ericjackson.com. Top right corner of the web page.

Thanks,

Jim