US 488 Pair On Cover Cut In Half?

This is a real interesting find.
Definitely a rotary, perf 10, type III.
Don't know what the reasoning would be behind this.
Anyone out there that can help me?

Thanks in advance

It came from a badly aligned coil dispensing (affixing) machine.
Don

Images from John Becker

Yes it did; makes for a nice cover.

Have not seen that device before. Obviously a dispensing device or self applicator, for buisness or at P.O?

Here's a couple; the bottom one is a bit different for a mis-registered one.

Never saw one as badly miscut as the bottom cover.

Nor have I. Surprising that it made it through the mail.

Funny, that last one almost looks like an attempt to manufacture a bisect cover.

Edit: why would that cover with Fraser on it be double rated? Overweight, oversize?

I suppose it's possible it was part of a postage due group and did not get marked because it was not the top cover.

The Fraser cover is addressed to C.W. Farles, Garvin, Oklahoma. The partial CDS showing on the right hand stamp is a Garvin, Okla. CDS. Cover doesn't appear to have been an over-weighted item, but perhaps it was...or it may have been a postage due lot? maybe because of the mis-register stamp? Just guessing on my part.....I'm off to bed.

Then you won't believe this one...

I think this is a 499 that I recently came into. Misperf but sort of the opposite effect.

I think everyone has one, here is mine with gripper damage.

Don

dogfcd-Those we have probably all seen before. :-)

Almost looks like it was cut with scissors..

Robert

Affixers were owned by businesses.

The evidence of affixer miscuts/misfeeds in this era creates no surprise that many businesses soon switched to metered postage.



Without contents, I agree there is no way to tell exactly. The stamps were not consecutive from the coil - perhaps they put one stamp on each outgoing letter that day then figured out that some needed another and applied them in a second round of applications. There was no "oversize" restriction back then, only weight.



If due as unpaid with a return address, it would have been marked and returned to sender. Absence of any auxiliary markings would indicate a very high likelihood that it passed through the mails successfully.



No, a knife-like apparatus. Like trying to tear a phone book in half, one feathers the pages ... to knife-through a stamp the device cuts from one edge to the other (in a scissor-like motion) or from the center to both sides, rather than cutting the entire stamp height at once. It often leaves a slightly diagonal or arced cut, the same on both sides.