Chads On Stamp And Stamp Pane

Hi, I have Chads on a Plate Block and a Pane of Stamps that I would like to share! The first is a Plate Block of US # 1356 Marquette Stamp, the second is a sheet of 20 cent US # 2052 Treaty of Paris a Bicentennial Stamp. They both display the Chads vividly, especially the pane, I tried to denote the Chads with stars on the sleeves that it is enclosed in to not disturb the Chads, where there are two stars there are two Chads! The pane was expertized by The APS (Cert.) included. So share the pics and enjoy. If you have any current Chad stamps please post.

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I've never seen a chad mentioned on a certificate. Are those loose chad pieces glued on to the stamps, such that the cert is treating this as a flaw?

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Yes it is a production problem. Inadequate debris control is the cause.

Is this a new collecting area where people are collecting stamps with debris (chads) attached to the stamps and then expertising them as an anomaly?

I thought excess paper from the edges of sheets of stamps was called "selvage"? German stamp collectors seem to love selvage for some reason if various collections I've bought are any indication. Page after page of stamps hidden under a blizzard of selvage! But I prefer to remove it because it's both pointless and messy -- unless it's holding multiple stamps together, of course, or has a plate number on it or some interesting design . . . or . . . or . . . . But if it's just "there," I remove it -- unless it's an old stamp . . . or a rare stamp . . . or . . . .

Those Chads are well hung.

DrewM: Beware that German stamps with "Numbers" (HAN - Hausauftragsnummer) in the selvage can be worth umpteen times more than the simple stamp.
I'd keep the selvage intact in any case, just a good protection for the perfs.

These chads usually come from worn down perforation pins that no longer punched through the paper completely. Insufficient pressure might have added to the effect (I think there were even cases where multiple flat plate sheets were perforated "in one go" and the pressure was too low for the pins to go through all sheets).

Bobcat126: No this isn't a collecting area. Most collectors actually prefer fully punched out holes.

In GB some QV and KEVII, and almost all KGV can have control numbers in the selvedge. Some controls can be worth considerably more than an ordinary single. Some combinations of control number and perforation can be worth even more than that.

Cylinder numbers, sometimes, can add. But that is much less frequent than with control numbers.

Still, sometimes, even cylinders can help identifying shades.

Earlier QV stamps can also be worth more with selvedge when there is something printed on them.

Selvedge can also be helpful for plating. Knowing that a stamp comes from the edge of a sheet narrows the position down to one in ten rather than 1 in 100.


Furthermore, I have seen mint stamps that have been hinged in the top selvedge, leaving the stamp MNH. I thank the previous collector for their consideration.

So, while selvedge is generally an annoyance, there are cases where having it can be a good thing so I generally leave it intact unless I have a good reason to remove it (like to fit a stamp into a mount).

(Note that the original thread was about chads, the perforation hole residue or unpunched perforation discs that are hanging on to the perforation hole. Selvedge refers to the entire sheet margin as pictured above).

OK thanks drkohler - I was like am I missing some new trend lol

In the case of Chads it does not happen frequently as numbers in selvedge with numbers may occur. My understanding is that's considered a EFO (Error, Freak or Oddity) there is a website I have been trying to be a member of that specializes in the study of EFO's which provides lots of information about that area of collecting!

It is the first time I read that chads are considered EFOs. Then again, there are enough people that think everything that is not standard is an EFO. Chads are quite common.

Soft paper issues often create chads. So those issues, and there are a lot of them just in US stamps, will be where they are found.

As to chads and EFOs, the chads as you show, have a slightly just greater than zero, "efo-ness" as you show them. My and were addressing the fact a certificate was requested. When the chad(s) get impressed into the paper leaving a dent or dent and chad(s) it is not as intended, thus an efo even noticeable when the chad is blown or falls off. Yes, a production issue, but to most a damaged (dented) stamp.

However debris which includes chads becomes note worthy when it interrupts printing and creates a white space or halo around a white space. While paper pieces (including chads) happen the rare finds are the insects and threads from a whipping rag which can be quite striking, and expensive. https://www.efocc.org/Resources/Hot...AA_Cover.php see, Freak 53 for an image.

EDIT: While typing this out, rodgcam slipped in the same link I posted, in which you will not find the term "chad." Here is the EFOCC home link-- https://www.efocc.org/main.php

A personal favorite of many is debris, circular, which landed perfectly on the eye of a 1901 Ben Franklin giving him a monocle look on that eye after the debris fell off. [Freak 53 as well]

Yes the EFOCC is a worthy group to join for EFO information, including back issues on line. Some where in those back issues you will find monocled Ben. I have been a member of the EFO Collector's Club since the 1970s. There is an auction each issue and exhibit awards are given, just to name a few benefits. It would also welcome an article about your chads and their certificate.

All that said, EFOs are not for everyone. Even 'Errors' per the USA EFO term of art, only interest some folks due to the prices.

I have an error where one full step of production was completely missed on a strip of five sheet stamps, with the row above and below each with a partial version of the missing material. Now if this involved ink, it would be big money, but alas, it was the gum which was not applied [Error 28]. All 15 stamps together demonstrate the "no gum" error and verify it was not just soaked off. Just to balance that, the most expensive single US EFO is, no, not C3a [Error 10] the upside down Jenny airplane, but Scott #85A, the 1 cent Franklin Z-grill [Error 27].