Question Concerning A Scott #557

Sorting my US perfins today, I found one punched into a blue Roosevelt stamp.

I know that the FE/&Co was used by the Funch Edye Company, but I'm curios about the perforation of this stamp. Being not really into US stamps, maybe someone could help me identify this "two side cut" edition.

Many thanks in advance!

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You can learn more about these 'straight edge' stamps here http://stampsmarter.com/learning/ID_RareLines.html
Don

Ah, thanks for this information. So it's just a forgotten perforation line - or in my case two.

But isn't it somehow weired, that these stamps should be less worth. If an employee in a printing company puts a sheet in the wrong way in, the stamps have mirrowed watermarks and are sold for astronomic values sometimes. For me just a mistake like forgetting the perforation ...

You must have misread the information. The perforations are not forgotten. They were never used on these sides. The lines are used as guides for the cutting of the large sheets into smaller panes. These cut lines and straight edges were normal. Though they are more rare than the perforations on all 4 sides, collectors have never liked them thus they are less expensive.

tommtomm,
No, the two blue non-perforated lines on your stamp are the "cut lines" intentionally not perforated. Your stamp is entirely normal. It is not an error. The title on Don's article could be clearer if it said more directly "Red line and green lines stamps are not rare errors", because readers tend to look past the quote marks and see what they want to see. (LOL, wkusau was typing at the same time I was!)

Add: I will quibble slightly with what wkusau states:


In the 1920s-50s, Collectors did avidly collect these cut line stamps to reconstruct miniature "panes of 9". I have posted portions of this catalog before where 2-lined stamps held a decent premium, now almost completely gone out of style:

And your stamp is a Scott #557.

Now I understand ... and thanks as well for the correct catalog number. But it will go straight into my US perfin collection anyway.

Thanks John. Interesting to know.

Don,

I kinda agree with John that the title of your article could be better. Kinda like the threads titles that are not clear.