I Have These Perforations Are They Something Special Or Are They Just Typical Any Idea's

Hey everyone
I just bought a few covers on ebay and thought this Washington a25
might be something special .
I think its cool it hasn't really lost to much of the stamp and it blends pretty good with the rest of the stamp.
Any value here?
Thanks Dan

This is probably a scizzor-trimmed stamp to capture the whole stamp prior to affixing to the envelope, or may be a bottom margin copy with the selvage still attached. Perhaps a student of this issue who knows the sheet details may know about the possible bottom margin selvage occurrence.

Regarding valuation, this is an "oddity" (from the categorization EFO - Error, Freak, Oddity), and doesn't have tremendous value, but to a collector may garner a $1 - $2 premium over standard valuation. The stamp itself has a corner crease, which unfortunately lessens the desirability, but still this should be a $1 - $3 range item IMHO.

Great to know thanks

If you look at the location of the image, and at the location of the sliver of the image of another stamp along the top edge you can see that the centering of the image is pretty bad - not enough to be an Oddity in my mind - just poor centering. I am not an expert on this particular issue, but the ones I have seen tend to have poor centering as a common problem and the ones with good centering are the ones that most collectors seek. As Orstampman points out it appears someone cut this out with some scissors. Given that it is cancelled at a common city, that the cancel is poor and hard to read, and considering the damage to the stamp's corner along with its poor centering, I might expect to find something like this in a dealer's dollar box and not much of a line of people getting in line to buy it from there.

Thanks Kimo for your input its good to know this info, very interesting.

Mr. Olcott was a collector of things, as well, it appears. Grass!

http://www.manchesterhistory.org/re...HisWork.html