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Greece Misperf And Great Britian Paste Up??????????

 
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Posted 10/24/2019   9:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Nick Saban to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Today I received in the mail a bag of stamps from a estate sale for $10.00. While going through them I find these 2 stamps. The Greece stamp appears to be a fold perf?, and the second is quite interesting. If you look at the second photo where the pencil is, the purple stripe is a piece of another stamp, appearing to be like a "paste up". You can clearly see where the perfs do not line up but, my question, is there such a thing on this Great Britian, # 89. Also any comments on the Greece stamp would appreciated as well.



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Posted 10/24/2019   10:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hy-brasil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is no officially done pasteup of the Great Britain stamp. Let's see the back side of the it. Stamps can stick together after soaking or in storage. Maybe someone was practicing repairs.
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Posted 10/24/2019   10:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Nick Saban to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Back of stamp is solid, also I was able to measure the perfs and the stamp and strip are both 14
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The Greek one is an used revenue stamp ("diagrafetai" means "deleted" or "cancelled")
Here is a mint one

(not my stamp)
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Posted 10/25/2019   12:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hy-brasil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Back of stamp is solid

Then how thick is the Great Britain stamp compared to another or one from the same issue? How does it watermark?
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Posted 10/25/2019   01:41 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The speculation on the British stamp is futile, unless we see an image of the back. That should have been supplied with the original query.

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Posted 10/25/2019   05:52 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Nick Saban to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I put the stamp under microscope, and checked for tears with lighter fluid and found the stamp is solid. The applied strip is 14 perf along with the stamp itself. In reference to the Greek stamp, was this a normal cancel practice, I can not find the Scott number.

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Posted 10/25/2019   05:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Nick Saban to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
As you can see, the strip was applied before cancellation due to the ink not going through the paper where the strip is.
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Posted 10/25/2019   05:59 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vayolene to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I assume Scott does not list Greek revenues.
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Posted 10/25/2019   07:27 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Stamps can stick together after soaking or in storage.


I support HB,
we see it all the time, stamps fuse if gum is allowed to remain, impatient collectors attempt to separate, and tear the stamp below, or remove some of the stamps face.
I'd warrant if you soaked in cold water the two would simply separate.
What is a "paste up" doing on such an issue

Postmark "Abingdon" is a duplex hammer, a barred "3" sits to the Right Hand side.

Nice Greece Revenue, not seen that prior, nicely solved Vayolene.
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On a few occasions, while looking for cancels and varieties in my glassines from many years ago, I'll stumble upon a "thick paper" variety. But, it is always the same thing...two stamps perfectly overlapping and stuck together caused by imperfect soaking by me.
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