US Scott 769 And 770 With Extra Large Selvedge

A bit confused by these 2 items. Were the sheets of 6 souvenir sheets produced with such a wide selvedge? Or is this something else?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Bob

These are the 1935 Special Printing (Farley Reprints). That is the only way to get these with the marginal selvage still attached.

The top one would be Scott 770 while the bottom one is Scott 769.

Perfectly normal. From Scott: "Issues in sheets of 20 panes of 6 each." Yes, they have a super-wide margin around the outer edge of the press-sheet. Your examples were cut from a press sheet by a collector - that's also how all the various gutter and cross-gutter items were made.

While I am a relative newbie I do recall a member named Stampman2002 started a thread on the 1934 Farley issues and the 1935 reprints in this thread https://goscf.com/t/54752

On page 4 the two in question are pictured.

-MV

Gibbons, London, Condemns Farley Issue

Terming the issue "waste-paper." Stanley Gibbons
of London, decree that the Farley imperforates
will not be listed in their catalog, just as the
Colonial Dominions are announcing the Silver
Jubilee outfit of 176 varieties with a combined
face value of well over $15 per set. "The stamps
(Farley's) have not been generally issued
throughout the United States, and have therefore
no standing or interest for stamp collectors,"
the Editor reports. Last word from the Philatelic
Agency was that sales were rapidly approaching the
million dollar mark.

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
May 4, 1935


Note: Gibbons did modify its stand subsequently
and the Farleys are listed in my antique 1966
copy of SG. I suspect that the Farleys survived
because, as usual, most collectors follow their
own whims and the stamps are very attractive.
The reprinting of the stamps was a tribute to
the power of collector protests.