Hello Everyone! I Am New In Philately.

The thread I was looking for is: Stamp Collecting Philosophy. It is now active in the main stamp collecting forum section down screen below.

Great boxes.

Thank you Casey! :)

All information can be found on google. Especially on 1c Franklin stamp.
It took me a week or more of investigations and reading about rottary and flat press printing techniques, and reading about stamp characteristics after printed on each press type.
Sites "theswedishtiger" and "usphila" can be helpfull with short descriptions, of stamps main characteristics and also pribide with good quality pictures of US stamps.
Its true, that I had perforation gauge, clippers (cool ones, with bended tips) and loupe, that was left from my grandfather.
Basics, on how to use perforation gauge, can be watched on youtube. :D

Why 1c franklin?

Because knew I had one among the stamps.

I used "google lens" on red 2c washington (turned out to be scott #554) stamp, when image of 1c green Franklin stamp popped out, surrounded by its popularity, value, broken hearts and disappointments. :)


So, what do you think about the stamp pictures above?
How do you think that may happened?


Paul.

This is a very high level examination. As a new collector, shouldn't you move on to the other millions of stamps that exist and come back to this another day? There is a lot more out there to see. From what I know, this design was issued six times earlier, and this is the final one. Have you checked out the other Scotts numbers?

The back of your stamp is normal, with no 'offset'. This is dark green ink and you are seeing the ink from the front straight on through. I would agree that the perfs would be expected to read 11 right on in most cases.

Thank you very much!

Will come back later.

MailMaster, the box manufacturer, still exists in North Attleboro, MA and they still make kraft MailMaster packaging. That is cool.

This is just speculation, but if the perf spacing is just a tiny bit tighter than 11, I wonder if someone along the way dried the stamp with heat instead of the traditional way. I could experiment with one of these and a hair dryer to see what results I get. Maybe a crazy idea but it will only take a few minutes.

Hi everybody!

Hi, rodcam.
That is cool!
Itl be fun to send them pictures.
I will try to send pictures of the box to were it was made. :) :)

Hi, Casey!

Interesting theory.

How did experiment went?