Here Is A Kinda Neat Find.

Was going through about 600 of these Scott 0241F perfin stamps.

I noticed a stamp with the always disappointing magic marker monkey cancel...Then I found another and another, but when I joined them together they seem to have come from the same envelope...

Robert

What is the chances of that happening...See picture below.


Now before anyone one says "Hey, the perfins don't even line up"..Check out the 3 stamps below.

Possibly once every 5 years, I read about it.
The first, I read where a very scarce stamp / part postmark was evidenced
on an issue, then another came up for auction half way across the world,
and the two were finally rejoined.

I scanned the commentary, and have never been able to find it again.
I have matched a pair (postmark) once in a plastic box of sundry.

It is kinda cool.

Another nice find, Robert.......when are you going to stop

René

Robert, if you come across some OHMS perf Cartier 208, please post them here. I am looking for a few positions to complete my collection and would like to see what's out there.

Thanks Rene..rod222

Gilles le timbre...Regular Scott 208...?

Robert

Apples and oranges Rod.

Your story is about stamps that were split up into different hands/part of the world and then were reunited. There is no evidence that these stamps were ever in different hands and then reunited. Since they are a part of a large horde, it is likely that they have remained together (in the same horde) since they were soaked. It is nice that Robert has pieced them back together.
Don

I just posted about an unlikely philatelic "family reunion" 145 years after the fact just the other day:

https://goscf.com/t/61995

I suppose that theoretically they could have been together in someone's collection prior to the 1960s, but that's highly unlikely. I like to think it's the first time they've been reunited since originally affixed to documents in 1873.

Anyway, finding separate but originally contiguous stamps in bulk lots or mixtures occurs more often than you would think. Still, nice to get the kids back together!

revenuecollector..Very, very nice write up buddy.

Also one can follow the wear and tear of the actual perforation machine...Look at the "M" on these stamps below..Obviously from the same run.

Robert




One last one...Look at this stamp pair..How can a perf machine not punch/or break between stamps..weird.

This is great - Robert - you should be proud !!
R

Extraordinary... well done.

I think the sheets were stacked or folded, and several stamps were perfinned at the same time. If the pins were worn that would explain it.

Hi dynamode...If you have sheets piled on and 2 or more are fed into the perforation machine, and because the pins are long enough to JUST perfs the stamps, any piling up would cause what is in the picture below..Broken pins are just that, broken pins..Any thoughts.

Robert

Two things relevant here.

I reunited this pair from different sources about 7 years ago and still can't believe my luck!




And this block of NZ KGV with an MGM perfin shows they were folded vertically before being the perfin was applied, hence the reversed G. I don't know if a sheet was "concertina'd" or simply folded in half

jubilee...Nice find...take a look at my original post.

https://goscf.com/t/52478&SearchTerms=,perfins

Gilles le timbre..I will keep an eye open for you.

I have no idea if the machines did one stamp/row at a time, or complete sheets. If it was rows, all those stamps in the row would have the same defects. Unless of course a pin broke. Thoughts ?.

Wow! Rare find. Thanks for sharing.