Anyone Have An Idea For This One ?

I'm familiar with paste up tabs on coils and private vending coils. But this one throws me for a loop. Any ideas what we might be looking at on a #304 ?

Looks like a piece of paper or envelope is glued to the back of the stamp. Have you tried soaking the stamp? You may uncover a thin spot.

Is there a tear going through the T of "United" and the f of "of"?


Peter

It's more of a crease where the tab is.

I did soak the stamp but not so much as for the tab to come off. The stamp is hardly worth the effort to try and cover up a thin. There does seem to be printing on the piece, perhaps like perforations from a stamp album page??

There are lost of possibilities, though none actually significant. First, gummed paper of any kind used for labels was used as hinges even after hinges were invented. Collectors would also use stamp selvage. If the added paper is shiny or semi-matte, then it's commercial label stock. It might have been used to hold a horizontal pair together, since separated.

The ink on the back is transfer from whatever this was stuck down on. It would wash off with further soaking, if parts haven't already come off from the first soak.

As the "paper" has the same perforation as the stamp - the answer is quite easy:
It seems, that it was an edge piece, and the "paper" is the folded-in margin of sheet that was stuck accidently.

Except that the center line is showing and is trimmed on the right.