What Kind Of Stamp Only Has Perforations On One Side?

I have a couple old stamps that have perforations on only one side and I would like to know what kind of stamps they would be?

It is a 1938 #839 George Washington stamp . I can't get the image to up load

They are likely from a booklet ... imagine three or four rows of two .. and take a stamp out .. you have an imperf on one side

It's possible there are some booklet or coil stamps that have this feature. It could be an error or it could be someone trimmed the perforations off on one or more sides.

What stamps?

There have been stamp book issues with a strip of stamps that had the outer edges imperforate. The stamp at the end that was not attached to the stamp book's cover has three imperforate sides.

Here is an example posted by member rod222. The stamp on the right has three imperforate sides and one perforated side.

Without an image, it is impossible to give any meaningful feedback.

Thanks for the great answer John. At least give us the country and the catalog number of the stamp


Peter

Hi NiJeLe,

What is the country and design of the stamp? Here is one from Canada. A booklet of pane of 3 (Scott 249c). The right stamp having only perforations on one side.

- stamporator -

Back in the day, stamp vending machines often offered coil stamps. After the stamp(s) is(are) vended, the machine cuts it/them off. If the machine is mis-registered - this happened a lot - then 2 sides of the stamp are the straight-edges of the coil and a 3rd side was cut too close, and is also a straight-edge.

It's is a 1938 greorge Washington #839 stamp. I can't get the image to upload

NiJeLe,
What you describe with your 1 cent Washington coil sounds like typical damage caused by an affixing machine similar to these two coils from the previous definitive series shown here. It is not a production or postal error, but done instead by the consumer using an affixer slightly out of adjustment. These mis-cuts will not be listed in any catalog and are considered damaged by most collectors, even they show typical "postal history" use characteristics of the application technology of the era.


Add: Here is a Scott 839 with a miscut by the application machinery. Value is essentially zero.

Thank you