Is This Q12 Reperfed On The Right?

Would like opinions please. Reperfed, perfs added or normal?

To my eyes, it is reperfed where you suspected. The holes themselves are not rounded, especially the the last 5-6 perfs towards the bottom. Mine is a purely amateur opinion.

Makes my head spin.

The perforation holes on the bottom look larger than those on the other three sides.

On the other hand, the perforation holes on the right side don't look to be square with those on the other three sides; the margin gets wider towards the bottom.

Looks normal to me.

I took the top perfs to compare with the other sides. Full disclosure: a short section of the top was used and was extended against the bottom perfs by repeating and overlapping a small portion.



I think they are. The perfs on the right were roughly punched; note the large chip within the 4th hole from the top. Many of the holes below that are incompletely punched/not perfectly round; worn pins, maybe. The gauge/spacing is correct to me, the hardest thing to forge. With perforating wheels used, the opposite sides should be essentially parallel; the whole stamp will not necessarily be perfed absolutely square. The side perfs vs. the top and bottom are out of square by about 1.5 degrees here.

Don't expect perfectly formed round perfs on genuine stamps.

Thank you for your input with a special thanks to Hy-brazil. Great stuff!

Interesting approach. Not sure why perf pins in one line would be more/less worn than another line since they theoretically both experience the same number of cycles during manufacturing. Right side still looks odd to me.

A big problem is unskillful removal of hanging chad. When done improperly the holes have a strange appearance. Additionally, poor removal of unpunched perforations also leads to an odd appearance.

Perfs at top right closer to design border than perfs at bottom right = perfs on right side added to straight edged stamp.

I think wtcrowe makes the correct call here, think someone excavated attached perf discs at right to improve appearance of centering. "Played with", and off-putting, but not quite reperforated.

I'd love to see a close-up of the reverse, zoomed in on the side in question.

Sorry for the ignorance, what is "reperfed", other than the verbally obvious meaning of stamps being perforated after production?
The site's glossary considers it to be too obvious to need explanation.

Short for reperforated which means perforations added or missing/damaged perforations replaced in order to enhance a straight edged or damaged stamp. An alteration.

"Not sure why perf pins in one line would be more/less worn than another line since they theoretically both experience the same number of cycles during manufacturing."

It is quite common for perf holes to non-uniform. The mentioned hanging chads is a perfect example - cut most of the way around but incompletely cut on one side and they hang from the same side of the hole, thus from the same side of the stamp.