Wash./Frank. Series 9c With Partial Neighbor Beyond Margin

Hi, this is not abt. the precancel - what is this south of the margin? How could that happen? Thanks in advance

The stamps were printed in large sheets of 400 and then cut into smaller panes of 100 stamps before sending out to the post offices.

In this case the guy running the cutting machine hadn't had his coffee yet and missed the cutting guideline (or maybe too much coffee). What you see at the bottom of this stamp is the top of the first stamp from the pane below.

That's a triple error, misperfed, miscut, and misaligned precancel. Maybe this all happened during the San Francisco earthquake.



n.b. "error" is not the correct term here, freak is more proper. Error normally implies a major error, imperforate, invert, missing color, etc.

Thank you for the information

For a discussion and some illustrations, check the following page on Stamps Smarter.

It uses the 1 cent and 2 cent Washington Franklins in the illustrations but the concept applies to many other stamp issues of the period.

https://stampsmarter.org/learning/I...reLines.html

MikeL