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Hello everyone ! Could you please tell me exactly how to use this perforation gauge ? I don't exactly know how to align the perforations with all the lines and please, could you send me a picture of an example when the stamp is well aligned (when I found the good perforation measure) and when it's not well aligned because I didn't find the good perforation measure of the stamp. Thanks ! CS  |
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Hello all. The Instanta gauge works for all perforated stamps. It is the "go to" gauge used exclusively by the expert committee at the Greene Foundation in Toronto.
I strongly recommend that the readings be taken from the valley between the perforation teeth rather than the tips. Tips are sometimes irregular or missing but the valley is always there.
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You are joking. Right? While that obviously was a joke, did you know that for this method to work on Australian and Australian States stamps, the stamps have to be placed upside down?  |
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I have a somewhat more serious question. Why are the horizontal lines of the gauge on the 1/4 and 3/4 perf marks? I would have thought it would make more sense to place the horizontal lines at the whole and 1/2 perf marks.
The Scott/Linn's gauge has horizontal lines at the whole, 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 marks (and below gauge 14 at every 1/10 mark as well). |
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Germania, different catalogs use different perforation accuracy. Scoot for example play by the closest half and round to it, 10.1 and 9.9 become perf 10; 10.7 1nd 10.4 are called perf 10.5. this is not discussing discussing modern die cut roulettes.
Edit: Also one gets into patent and copyright issue when making an exact copy of someone else's product. |
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While that obviously was a joke, did you know that for this method to work on Australian and Australian States stamps, the stamps have to be placed upside down? Can't you turn the gauge upside down instead?  |
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