My First Finding Of A Tampered Stamp - Please Advise!

This is the first tampered stamp I found since I took seriously on Philately a couple of months ago
The perfs at the bottom were cut off another stamp and glued in a primitive manner, in my opinion. [See the difference in papers on the third image: left being the addition. The image is upside down.]
Here is the question:
why would anyone tamper with this particular stamp, please?

Hi

they did it to make a badly damaged stamp look nicer in their album. Though in this case, they did not do a very nice job.

Joe

Who knows why collectors do what they do with their material. Looks like a type II stamp that someone wanted to make look better so probably chopped a common type V perforated piece to make 1 weird stamp.

This would usually be called a crude repair rather than tampering. As alub says, it was done to make the stamp look better and not done to deceive.

Well, I guess I will never find out. If I will ever become an expert then I will use it for educational purposes in my workshops

The original stamp probably had a large piece missing and the "repairer" took a piece of something from somewhere to fill it in.

While a very crude repair, kudos to the repairer for leaving the perfs as a clear indication that it is an altered stamp.
Don

To me, it still doesn't make sense: a stamp in a poor condition has been through loads of nasty things during its life-time. So, why change that?

He may well have just reinforced it to keep it from falling apart.

I think he used paper tape and the perfs are just where the paper tape was cut by the dispenser.

I agree with tx and Ken totally. This is just a crude repair job. If we had a better picture of the front of the stamp we might be able to see some damage.

Peter

... damage it is

I mean no disrespect, but people have widely different tastes, compulsions, obsessions, etc. that anything is possible and highly likely. People will tinker with crap for no particular purpose from our perspective, but from theirs it makes perfect sense. This particular collector probably could not tolerate the gaping tear at the bottom and made the best repair possible with the skills at hand. When really skilled people do this, folks are quick to cry "fraud" (unjustly but understandably given the variance in personalities) but in this case it is obvious this activity can be completely harmless, though individual in its purpose.

Well, as long as it was not sold as 'superb condition', I guess it doesn't really matter why the owner put time and effort to mend it

I think the stamp was torn in half, starting at the "A" in Postage. Run at a diagonal to the "O" in the postmark and circled back to the missing section. The hinge is holding the two halves together and a random piece to fill the bottom gap. Probably a young kid trying to fill a hole in his album. It was a fix he could manage.

Jaxom100: yes, most likely the previous owner - he started collecting as a teenager in the 1950s, apparently. That would explain why he kept it all these years ...