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I scanned another in the series alongside this one for comparison.
What do the experts here think? Has it been trimmed and if so . . why?
Also why are there holes punched in these when they have clearly been canceled with a pen?
Thanks!
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What you have is a copy of a US revenue, Scott #R55b that someone has trimmed the perfs off the left and right sides to make it appear to be an imperforate stamp - probably to try to pass it off as such in an attempt to make some profit from it.
However, this stamp was never imperforate - it was only part perfed (perfs vertical only) or full-perfed.
This is what my copy looks like...and what yours USED to look like!
And regardng the hole;
this was the way revenues of that era were often cancelled, even though it was pen-cancelled beforehand. It helped to prevent re-use.
The punch cancel drastically lowers the value of the stamp, according to the Scott catalog.
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Thanks Musicman! I pretty much figured as much. I have a partial perf of R55b that is pen cancelled but not punched 
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08:57:11pm
Relaxing with some wine this evening and sorting through my revenues and found this one with no perfs. I did a search on "Scott R55 Imperf" and came back with no results. Plenty of hits for others in this series that are imperfs but not this one.
I scanned another in the series alongside this one for comparison.
What do the experts here think? Has it been trimmed and if so . . why?
Also why are there holes punched in these when they have clearly been canceled with a pen?
Thanks!
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re: Imperforate or trimmed revenue stamp??
What you have is a copy of a US revenue, Scott #R55b that someone has trimmed the perfs off the left and right sides to make it appear to be an imperforate stamp - probably to try to pass it off as such in an attempt to make some profit from it.
However, this stamp was never imperforate - it was only part perfed (perfs vertical only) or full-perfed.
This is what my copy looks like...and what yours USED to look like!
And regardng the hole;
this was the way revenues of that era were often cancelled, even though it was pen-cancelled beforehand. It helped to prevent re-use.
The punch cancel drastically lowers the value of the stamp, according to the Scott catalog.
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02:00:35pm
re: Imperforate or trimmed revenue stamp??
Thanks Musicman! I pretty much figured as much. I have a partial perf of R55b that is pen cancelled but not punched
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