68A ~ Reperfed Right Vertical?

Sure looks like it

Peter

I've had it for quite some time... just pulled it out a few days ago...

Hi, your stamp is also the "TAG" variety. Some people think this is a double transfer, other people think it is a stray foreign material on the transfer roll, (I'm one of them).

I did notice that, however the TAG appears to be a bit less prominent
than others classified as such, so I didn't make reference to it...

Do you concur as well with being reperfed at right ?

Hi, appears that it might be reperfed.

How about a scan of the reverse side?

A tip of the hat to whoever pointed out this method here on the board!

Opposing sides/line of perf holes must be basically parallel.

Stamp bottom matched to top. Looks like a fit to me.


Stamp right side matched to left. Certainly not parallel. The reperfer was lazy and just used scissors or a cutter to trim the right side. Scissor-cut perfs happened in real life, but usually all around. New Orleans P.O. clerks had scissors, for one, and the reprints/reissues are often found cut apart by scissors. It doesn't mean they did a nice job acceptable to collectors, either.

Hi, thanks for the reverse scan.

I think its always useful to see reverse scan.

It always is, with a glass the absence of pressure ridges becomes apparent.

I know little about these but if I see a stamp with 3 sides in that condition and then one side nice looking I would be very suspicious.

While that is suspicious, it does not automatically mean that the one side is reperforated. Sometimes stamps were cut apart with scissors; this can cause the same effect st times.

The perforations vary in size and shape - particularly the several lower ones.

Hi

Should classic stamps that have been reperfed still be collectible? I think so, if nothing else, I have a reference collection (small) of such items.

What does other people think?

If and only if (asking for opinions), if somebody did not want this stamp because it might have been reperfed and put it up for sale/auction. Would you include in a description that it might have been reperfed?

What do you think?

I think that if you took out all of the re-perforated, repaired, and otherwise "damaged" classic stamps you'd have a much smaller group of stamps.

When I first started collecting as a kid, damaged stamps were all I could afford. It felt great to fill in spaces, and sometimes complete pages in my album. I knew my stamps had damage, but I enjoyed them as much as I now enjoy my much nicer copies.

Even now, I'd be very, very, happy with a reperfed 85A, 366, 423C, 594, 613, etc.

The stamp collecting world has lots of room for people who don't collect 100J stamps.