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Hi - what did happen here? Note traces of the projections of neighboring stamps on top and right, Sorry for poor picture, it's taken from seller`s offer.  |
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| Edited by sigistenz - 03/28/2026 10:19 am |
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Most likely the postmaster, clerk, or purchaser used scissors to separate the stamps before attaching it to the envelope. |
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Scott #12 is imperforate. This is Scott #27.
The guy that cut it needed glasses. |
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I assume you know it's not #12. It is one of the perforated stamps in the next series, I believe they are numbered #27 through #30A. |
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Very difficult to be sure of exactly what shade this is from a scan on a PC. |
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Excuse me, my fault, of course this is Scott 27 (title corrected now). As to the straight sides - IMHO they are too parallel to have been done by a hasty clerk's scissors, could they have occured in the production process (???)  |
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| Edited by sigistenz - 03/28/2026 10:32 am |
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Some postal clerk or patron was having none of this new-fangled perforation crap and went to the old tried-and-true scissors. |
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A deliberate or careless job by a postal clerk would likely be more irregular and closer to the perforation. The perfectly parallel cuts we see here instead suggest a machine origin. |
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The stamp appears to have a partial New Orleans postmark. The New Orleans post office was known to cut the 5 cent stamps into strips, probably to make it easier to pay the 15¢ rate to France. If you look on Siegel powersearch there are a bunch of 5¢ 1857 covers from New Orleans where the stamps were separated by scissors. |
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| Edited by SPQR - 03/31/2026 09:25 am |
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5c Brick Red (27). Vertical strip of three, scissor-cut perfs on all sides, tied by two strikes of "New Orleans La. Mar. 8, 1859" circular datestamp on printed prices current to Trie-sur-Baise, France, red New York credit datestamp ties strip, "Et. Unis Serv. Br. A.C. 29 Mars 59" French entry datestamp, Paris and Trie-sur-Baise backstamps, stamps and cover have small faults, Fine, high catalogue value but our estimate reflects the perf trimming, which is typical of 1857 stamps used from New Orleans, where the sheets were divided into strips with a razor  |
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Posted 03/28/2026 09:11 am
Thank you, Rogdcam, now I understand the matter.
