This Lot Is Guaranteed To Make Your Jaw Drop

Mind boggling.

Jim

https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-R81c-2-...AOSwc2FZ548a

I own the other half.

Well, contact the seller and send him your piece and some Scotch tape to make a whole stamp then.

Jim

Yeah, bisects not on original covers or documents are just pieces of stamps.

What's interesting though, is that if it is not a legitimate bisect, as one would assume, what would have caused the person canceling the stamp to write at that exact angle? That's not typical (although definitely possible on a full stamp).

Unless the cancel was added after the stamp was cut... or someone searched through mountains to find a plausible candidate with the cancel askew, and then created a bisect.

Regardless, we'll never know the answer.

Here is another winner from same seller.A late usage imperf.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-R77a-1-...AOSwW9NZ458a

It looks to me that it is cancelled "zanderson," and maybe because of the length of this name the writer was used to doing it diagonally or even vertically to get more writing space.




Sounds like the which came first, the chicken or the egg type of question.



Jim

The R77a is so late that it used to have perfs before someone shaved it. And the missing half of the R81c could just as easily have part of the cancel as well.