While we are making up arbitrary rules, let me share my view as I have posted to other threads before. Your mileage may vary:
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I too would not call this an error. I have always thought of EFO's on a continuum scale based on the nature of the deviation from what was intended, rarity, eye appeal, etc.
10 - true, rare, first-class, major errors
9 - errors
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7
6
5 - freaks
4
3
2
1 - oddities
I would rate the perforation shift on this stamp at about a 1.5 or maybe a 2 if I owned it! I have found that owner-bias tends to classify their own stamps about 1-2 levels higher than neutral parties would. I am sure I am guilty of this too. Your stamp is typical of the production standards of that era. I would not call your stamp damaged.
You ask in another thread the value of this item. The value is *not* is the stamp at all - the stamp is common - but in the mail use as a piece of postal history. You have a single piece printed matter rate card sent to a foreign destination. It was essentially "junk mail" when mailed, which has a very low survival rate, especially after 100 years. Harder to find than ordinary letter mail. In my opinion, this card is worth a buck or two if mailed to a US destination, but worth several times that as a foreign destination.
Posted 08/28/2019 2:14 pm
