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1925 Design 1˘ Franklin Rotary Press Printing

 
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Posted 03/06/2020   4:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add rb6179 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Has anyone ever came across this stamp with a perf of 11-1/2 x 10-1/2? I have two different perf gages and both give me the same perf.
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Posted 03/06/2020   5:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jleb1979 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Any chance you can post a scan of the stamp in question on a gauge?
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Posted 03/06/2020   5:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rb6179 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I will a little later today. My desk is a little crowded right now. Still sorting through a pile of stamps. Found the one in question in a bag of primarily foreign stamps. Caught my eye due to the narrow side margins. It's well centered left to right, wide top margin and perf's cut into design on bottom. Barely enough margin to determine the size of the stamp.
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Posted 03/06/2020   5:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cfrphoto to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Flat plate perf 11 hole spacing is 0.072" while rotary press perf 11 hole spacing is 0.070", very close to perf 11 1/2. I posted this a few days ago on another thread:


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A perforation gauge is not a measuring device. It is a "go/no go" device. If 11 1/2 perforations do not quite fit within between two lines 2 centimeters apart, then it would be described as perf 11.

Please be mindful that the perforation count is truncated, not rounded.

A US Specialist gauge, based on English measure, is more effective for US stamps from before 1960 and some later stamps.
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I suspect you are talking about Scott 632. As Scott is wont to do, they truncated the actual perf measurement of this stamp from 11.25x10.5 to 11x10.5. Scott may do this whenever confusion as to the actual id cannot arise. In this case, the 10.5 vertical perfs are unique to 1926 rotary version of this design. There's not much difference between 11.25 & 11.5 … so I suspect we are discussing the same stamp.
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I always prefer to use other stamps produced at the same time by the same printer for comparisons for that reason.
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