US Coil Waste Stamps (11 X 10)

Scott 538

Scott 539

Scott 540

Scott 541

Scott 578

Scott 579

Very nice stamps Jogil!


Peter

Petert4522: Thanks.

Jogil, are these yours?
The 539 was one of my "dream" stamps when I was heavily into the 2c red Wash/Franks. I was able to get most of the tough ones, but the 388 and 539 were out of my league.

If they are yours, congrats btw on the 539 and the 594....if not, it's a great post either way.
Ray

ray.mac: These are all shown for educational purposes. I do not own any of the more expensive items.

Nice stamps!

I have a question about the Scott 579. Some of the top and bottom perforation tips are cut straight across, whereas all of the left and right side perforation tips are "feathered". Why do you thing they are cut straight across?

The straight-tip perforations at the bottom appear to be aligned (except for one, which is shorter and at an angle), but the straight-tip perforations at the top are not.

What do you think?

orstampman: The vertical 10 perforations were made by a bar perforator for coils and the horizontal 11 perforations were made by a wheel perforator. These coil waste stamps were made from 170 subject coil sheets that were cut into 100 and 70 coil panes and were perforated on their imperforate sides horizontally to make sheet stamps from them. It may be possible that since the 599 coil stamp is inexpensive, there may be some fake perforations added to it horizontally to make a 579 stamp with those perforation teeth looking more sharply cut because it was a straight coil edge. It could also be a bottom of the pane copy.

jogil - Thank you for your inputs on the 579. It appears to me that the bottom row of perforation tips that are straight across are in the same horizontal line, so I suspect that at least the bottom perforations may have been from the bottom of a pane, except for the one perforation tip at the bottom that is straight but at a diagonal angle (someone may have trimmed it, even though it is shorter than the other perforation tips). Or it may have been manufactured from a 599.

But if it were a pane edge at the bottom, it doesn't explain the straight edge tips at the top perforation tips. So, I think it has either been manufactured, or doctored.

Nonetheless, these stamps are stunning!

It would be good scholarship to cite the sources for the images you do not own.

The coil waste stamps are an interesting topic.

I finally got around to scanning a 170 subject sheet of the Sc. 540 (type III, perf. 11 x 10) which I picked up last year and thought that as long as I'd scanned it, folks might want a look at it.



It doesn't fit into an album so it tends to be out of sight out of mind in an oversize archival box more suited to newspapers.

Some years before I acquired the #540 sheet above, I briefly had custody of a 170 subject sheet of #541. It was intact although stated as fragile with some separated perfs when I won it. The auction firm's shipping department did not anticipate the way their package must have been tossed about 'cause when I got it, the sheet had split horizontally into two pieces, as you can see. I returned it for a refund, but scanned it before sending it back. I do not recall what it went for next. I felt bad 'cause a philatelic rarity had suffered. I can't imagine there are many of these sheets left intact at this point.