Franklin Has A Funny Face. Scott #40

So, Franklin has a very strange looking face here. Any thoughts about what might be going on?

Left side of design ok as #40 - or at least something from the reprint plate, aka proof.
Middle and upper right looks like a piece of another stamp glued on. Maybe a #7.

This stamp is probably rebacked and maybe even had gum added. Look at the perfs all around. There is stuff in them that shouldn't be there.
#40 was issued with no gum.

This stamp was someone's creation.

It looks Photoshopped. The stitch line extends beyond the stamp. Not sure if games are being played here but it can't be a good thing.
Don

Don, That "stitch line" is a image scan issue if it goes through the stamp and background. I experience it very often. If the line goes through an important plaiting point, I have to rescan the image to put the line elsewhere. At 2400 dpi, the line will cut somewhere.

Oldurn, can you scan it over and repost it here? Maybe the face blur was a scan issue too.

Agreed it might be a stepper motor scanner problem; I assumed the OP would have noticed it since the face area is what the thread was about.
Don

Yes I get that line in a lot of my scans as well. Very annoying.

It usually doesn't cause this degree of distortion, however. Usually just the skew of the image at the point of the line.

Never mind the stitchline, the perforations look totally different on both sides of that line, and that sort of bugs me?

Peter

Perfs at right are obvious fake, as is the rest of the stamp as I outlined, pending scan verification. Stamp made from spare parts.

Hmm! One post and no response. Maybe the answer is what others have described. Digital manipulation of image. The face area looks like it was mushed as lines are not at all normal looking as if it was modified.

Taking a closer look at that stamp, it appears to have been cut along design and pasted with another stamp. It is hard to tell how the face parts got mixed and where the cut there is.

The purpose of this topic must be to amuse the OP. Maybe he/she has a lot extra time?

The image is of two different stamps spliced together along that line that appears to be a scanner artifact. Look at how the portion of the stamp right of the line is out focus.

And oldurn hasn't returned to this thread since posting it...
Looks like a time waster.

FWIW, oldurn is the name of a HipStamp seller.

ETA: from Texas

Then its also odd the same question wasn't posed on the HipStamp forum...

Looking closer at this image, I am doubting that this is a scanner malfunction. The image appears to be two different sized images combined; this would explain why the left hand side is shifted down at the top and shifted up at the bottom.

If this is a scanner glitch, I cannot think of a way it could shift it in two different directions and/or distort the image size.
Don

I definitely agree that we need clarification on whether the scan is legit.

That said, when I tried to scan a die sunk large die proof, I just gave up. The problem was differing heights of the surface. The 'sunk' part would never get in focus. Scanning a 3D object in 2D == nope. If the stamp is stitched as it looks, that could create a similar 3D problem, and cause the lower section to be out of focus.

I agree - confirming scans front/back here are needed.