Is It Just Me, Or Are 3 Out Of These 4 Reperfed?

Nice lot of a small series largely unknown by casual revenue collectors.

R260 - R263 are perf 11 x 10 versions of the earlier design printed in the bazillions and found perf 10 or perf 11.

This series is much harder to find nice copies of.

I was looking at this lot and the 5 cent didn't look right for some reason. As I looked closer, 3 of the 4 look to be reperfed. The 10 cent doesn't have straight cut edges like the other 3. Hate to think somebody is manufacturing this scarcer series!!

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Opinions?!?!?

They are not reperfed. Just a thick soft paper and a Bureau that issued billions of 1917's and didn't really care how they looked. The general public was not going to see most of them, only lawyers, stock brokers and accountants.

Do you not find the left, right and bottom edges of the 5 cent to be odd?

At least cut with scissors or a paper cutter?

Seem wayyy too regular. No paper fibers sticking out at all and they are all perfectly the same length and squared off?

The 2,3 and 5 have been cut by a blade or scissors.

I recall cutting shards of mis-ripped stamps with scissors, when I began collecting, and the result just didn't look right.
I took up the regime of bending and removing with tweezers.

Is the 2c Typo. and the others Litho.?

rod222 - By the time the perf 10 and 11x10 perforation changes were initiated, all the documentary stamps (except the 25¢ denomination) were being printed using high etch plates on the offset presses. George Brett published articles on this in the U.S. Specialist about three decades ago.

The only denomination of which I am aware that went through this transition much later is the 25¢ denomination. At the time of the silver tax and tobacco sales tax overprints were being applied (circa 1934) there were still enough offset printed sheets of the 25¢ still in the vaults of the Bureau of Engraving & Printing. The Bureau's initial transition to high etch plates for all the other denominations was in 1924-5. This was well documented in the centennial history publication that was produced by the Bureau.