France SC Type Ap1 Imperf. Opinions?

Here is another one of my mysteries. France Scott # C6. I see no evidence of perf dips if it was trimmed from a perforated stamp. If it was trimmed, that stamp was huge. There is no mention of imperfs in Scotts, which is the only reference I have. Opinions please. Thanks! Wolf-==-

From what I could find they were issued perforated and comparing to other scans it looks like the perforations were just carefully trimmed off.

On my Yvert et Tellier catalog (#A6), there's no mention about any imperforate issue of this stamp. So it must be a case of trimmed perforations.

Agree. I suppose that cut from an épreuve de luxe would be a very outside possibility.

At minimum, perfs have been trimmed from a slightly larger than normal stamp.

However, the stamp could also be rebacked in whole or in part. Flip the stamp over. You should be able to see that the printing is impressed into the paper. If not, drop it into fluid and you should see a "frame" effect where paper has been added to the back to fill out the margins.

hi, No.1 overinking in the inner frame.No.2,the dot's look more
rectangular than round..
Need a much better quality pic.

I grabbed the first image I found on Google and "trimmed" the perfs. (Yes, there are a couple tiny indications of perfs, but I wasn't militant about rotating the stamp to a half degree...I could have left a tiny bit more margin.)



I think they're pretty close in size?

According to Billig, these were printed in sheets of 25. There must have been quite a bit of space between each cliché.

ETA: I don't know why it didn't occur to me to grab an image of a block from the web until after I hit [Enter]...Billig lists dated corner blocks for each color, with 1930, 1931 and 1932 dates for the main entry, and only one mention for the other colors ("dated corner block" with no mention of year).