Please Assist With Oppinion On Genuine Scott #596 Please

No, not good luck if they are claiming it is something it is not.

I (very crudely) used photoshop to take the stamp off the background and line the vertical perfs to the circles on the 11 gauge… They do not line up. No resizing or editing other than a small white border to distinguish the perfs from the background

What auction is that? Please mention so we may follow along in the process. A stamp of the caliber of a 596 deserves to be listed with a major international auction firm.

Possibly a waste of effort for the OP but may be useful to others. The side perforations have been copied, rotated and placed next to the top perforations. No match.

Anyway, I think I may have wasted my time reading this thread. He asked for an opinion and got one, actually a few! And if he says, "convince him otherwise", and still disagrees, then he has to deal with it. If he wants to get it expertised, go forward and spend your money anyway you wish, as you are going to be well compensated if its really as you think and state it is. Best of luck fishing.
Just my opinion.

IMO these people come here trolling for suckers.

We need a specific category for "I have a 594 or 596" so all of these threads will be grouped together and maybe the next one can see the 5000 previous people who did not have the willing lottery ticket.

I count 68 threads on this topic.

If you are delusional, you will not be convinced by those threads. And since, normally, the OPs do not return to tell us the expertiser or auction house told them they should pay someone to take the worthless stamp, they may even see confirmation in those threads.

JLG,
Despite your wishes and hopes, I agree with all the posts here so far that you do NOT have a 596. Germania's recent post showing the top vs side perforations is exactly the proof to show you have a Scott 632. Period. These stamps are approximately 2cm high and wide (the operational width of a perforation gauge) , thus aligning a tip/hole at one end will have the alignment "off" by half a perforation by the other end. Germania's post show that perfectly .... and only 632 comes with a rate differing by half.

Beyond that, the perforation rates listed in the Scott catalog for these issues is rounded to the nearest HALF. Not a single one is exactly perf 10, or perf 11, or perf 11x10.5, but only fairly close. (Read-up about the more exact Kiusalas gauge.) This is why many collectors set their perforation gauge aside and use another stamp of *known* rate as a gauge instead.

As for template cut-outs, they are only good with a full understanding of both the origin stamp used to make the template and its application to a stamp being examined. And the alignment must be extremely precise to confirm/refute findings often differentiated by fractions of a millimeter.