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Odd Perforations? Help To Identify?

 
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Posted 08/22/2017   01:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add spartcom5 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Going through the collection I bought I came across an envelope labeled CH 8 1/2 + Special. I see the perf 8 1/2, unfortunately it looks like one side of it is ruined, bummer. The other stamps however I haven't seen before. Any help on these? Thanks! Edit: I know the second stamp second picture is CH 10 badly off center.



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Posted 08/22/2017   02:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kcaramat to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The Chicago precancel has 2 slots that indicates that the stamp was processed through a Schermack Mailing machine. The Schermack Company built a machine that affixed stamps to and sealed envelopes at a rate of up to 250 per minute. The slots weren't perforations as such. They were used by "fingers" inside the machine to locate the stamp prior to it being cut from the coil by a knife.

The Schermack Company used imperforate stamps to make coils of 3000 stamps that were used in the machines.
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Posted 08/22/2017   10:13 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Agree - Chicago has Schermack type III slots
The pair is from a booklet pane
The remaining singles are from coils which passed through an affixer with its knife blade slightly out of adjustment, leaving the stamps cut a bit off their perforations, and considered damaged.
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