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How Can I Determine If 1910 Union Of South Africa 2 1/2-D Blue Stamp Has Been Trimmed?

 
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23272949
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Posted 02/09/2026   08:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add 23272949 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Wishful thinking, or has this stamp been trimmed. I don't have another stamp to sit it on and wonder what your thoughts might be? Might there be any tell tale signs under a microscope for example?
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rogdcam
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Posted 02/09/2026   08:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The narrow margins say trimmed plus the exhibit linked here has no imperfs.

https://southafricanphilatelyclub.c...morative.pdf
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NSK
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Posted 02/09/2026   09:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This photograph is hopeless. A scan of a flat stamp may show better details and, possibly, traces of perforations,

Also, until at least 2007, no imperforate has been listed by Stanley Gibbons.
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Posted 02/09/2026   09:26 am  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
As far as I know, this design wasn't used for postal stationery, so everything points to a trimmed perforated stamp.
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23272949
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Posted 02/09/2026   10:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 23272949 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for response, but further on down the page it refers die essays, plate essays, and experimental essay. Could it be either?
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NSK
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Posted 02/09/2026   10:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
At first sight, at the lower left, there appear to be traces of perforations.

The hesitant cuts at top suggest these were not proofs.

But again, the quality of the picture is too bad.
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GeoffHa
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Posted 02/09/2026   10:44 am  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
More generally, this is an interesting article about the stamp -

https://www.southafricacollector.co...tive_SG1.htm

and here -

https://southafricanphilatelyclub.c...morative.pdf
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Edited by GeoffHa - 02/09/2026 10:46 am
Cjd
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If it was a proof or a trial, it would have to have been trimmed, anyway. Watermark?

(For posterity, there is no contrary info in Robson Lowe's Encyclopedia, or the Handbook/Catalogue of Union of South Africa Stamps, either.)
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23272949
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Thanks for comments thus far. I will get a better image uploaded, along with the back of the stamp, which shows as wm 1
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