Scott 467 Stamp Multiple Mutilated For A Grade

Yeah, the people who think doing things like this are necessary. Cutting up scarce, rare, and unique multiples to fill their greedy little hands. Destroying unappreciated artworks is certainly a fascist trait; there is plenty of historical evidence to back that up.

Baffling how fascism has been injected into this topic. I will request that the related comments be stricken so that we remain on-topic and the thread does not get locked like so many others.

How come you are not bothered by the woke injections

I am. They both need to go.

George Orwell, in his wonderful essay Politics and the English Language explains the problems of using words like "Fascism" and "Woke" as descriptions of anything bad far more eloquently than I can. Therefore I will simply quote him:

"The word fascism now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable'. The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using that word if it were tied down to any one meaning. Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different."

His wrote this in 1946, and, sadly, it still rings true today....

To me, fascism has a much more significant meaning then simply 'something not desirable'. Many things are "not desirable" without being fascism. Deliberate mutilation of irreplaceable or almost irreplaceable artworks is far more then simply "not desirable". It shows a certain attitude about the world at large and about life.

The best thing that can be said about this is that at least it's not the imperf 485.

Yet .

Siegel Sale 1138, Lot 1634:



https://siegelauctions.com/lot_grd....emailflag=on

Fortunately it did not do all that well considering what other gem 100 stamps have brought.

A puzzling issue for me in cutting up these imperfs is that the base stamp itself is impossible to find NOT well centered because there are NO PERFORATIONS. I mean come on people. It is not like only a small fraction are well centered because the perforating process sucked. Just so ridiculous.

Indeedy. The only sensible description of a decent imperforated stamp is "four clear margins".

I think there might be a little more nuance than that. I like to see a fair amount of white all the way 'round. (I'm okay with a margin getting a little close if the stamp is otherwise nice to have, but the price should reflect it. We all know those dealers who will say "margin close at lower left." "Close? It's missing half of a check letter!")

Here is the Gibbons treatment of margins for imperfs:

Painful & disturbing.