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These stamps were sold as full imperforated sheets to companies that serviced stamp affixing and stamp vending equipment. They would cut the stamps into strips, and each company tried different perforation varieties. I collect the early years on Scott 314.
And the big stamp dealers of the day could buy these sheets, to feed down to individual collectors. There are all kinds of cutting varieties, as individuals could do whatever they wanted.
So your stamp, depending on it's usage, which you won't know since it's not on cover, was either on philatelic mail as a curiosity between collectors, or was affixed onto it's commercial envelope by a misaligned affixing machine.
On Scott 314, the one cent issue of 1902, the imperfs were used from 1906-08. I have found very little actual commercial usage from this era, as they were pretty much pioneering the technology and figuring it all out. Much of what is in my collection as usage was collector to collector mail, some of it I've researched by name down to prominent collectors of the era.
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Yes it's a shame that it isn't still on the cover. There certainly would have been an interesting story to tell. Thank you for sharing some in-sight I'll keep my eyes open and wallet at the ready for my next finds. I do remember that the stamp I have posted came out of a large un-searched and untyped lot that I had bought once upon a time.
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It is a Scott #343 and I don't have any idea how long I've had this one. I thought it was time to share it.
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re: Here is one of my Franklin mis-cuts.
These stamps were sold as full imperforated sheets to companies that serviced stamp affixing and stamp vending equipment. They would cut the stamps into strips, and each company tried different perforation varieties. I collect the early years on Scott 314.
And the big stamp dealers of the day could buy these sheets, to feed down to individual collectors. There are all kinds of cutting varieties, as individuals could do whatever they wanted.
So your stamp, depending on it's usage, which you won't know since it's not on cover, was either on philatelic mail as a curiosity between collectors, or was affixed onto it's commercial envelope by a misaligned affixing machine.
On Scott 314, the one cent issue of 1902, the imperfs were used from 1906-08. I have found very little actual commercial usage from this era, as they were pretty much pioneering the technology and figuring it all out. Much of what is in my collection as usage was collector to collector mail, some of it I've researched by name down to prominent collectors of the era.
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re: Here is one of my Franklin mis-cuts.
Yes it's a shame that it isn't still on the cover. There certainly would have been an interesting story to tell. Thank you for sharing some in-sight I'll keep my eyes open and wallet at the ready for my next finds. I do remember that the stamp I have posted came out of a large un-searched and untyped lot that I had bought once upon a time.
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