Stamps with holes in - help!
Christopher M Dickson
Christopher M Dickson
David Lee
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The original poster has been unable to post his question and asked
me to do so for him..
He wonders if any country has issued stamps where the middle portion
has been intentional cut out in the shape of a circle or square.. He
is not referring to perfins (initials), a solid portion of the stamp is
missing...with the stamp designed around the missing portion..
Anyone know???
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Armin Forker
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Your article is somewhat invisible.
You need help in more than one respect! :-)
When using tin don't change the name ".article".
Sincerely
Armin
SteveSwa
"Michael D. Dixon" <m...@access4.digex.net> writes:
Portugal, from 1880-1892, used a punch cancel in the shape of a 5-pointed
star on stamps used in the telegraph service. *Mint* stamps with this
punch are not unusued at all, and sell for a fraction of the regular mint
price. Since the stamps stayed with the telegram, the punch was applied
by clerks after it was sent. Clerks later soaked off the stamps and sold
them in the philatelic trade.
Steve Washburne
Michael D. Dixon
For some issues of stamps for various countries for which
it had the printing contract, Waterlow in the UK punched
circular holes in examples to use as promotional material
for its products for other authorities. The holes are
somewhere in the eighth to quarter inch diameter. As a
rule, the "stamps" also had an overprint, like "SAMPLE"
or "CANCELLED", or the name of the company.
The British Post Office also punched stamps - in an oddball
shape - a sort of rectangle with extensions on the short
sides of the rectangle - which are from booklets used as
vouchers for those companies which advertised in the booklets
and for use as samples to prospective advertisers. These
are also usually overprinted with the word "CANCELLED".
Don't know of others, but the UK examples are probably not unique.
Michael
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Rev. Stephen Knapp
While the U.S. never *issued* any stamps this way, some stamps were
*essayed* in something like this format in the 1860's for U.S. postage. If
you have access to a Scott's U.S. Specialized catalog from 1992 or later you
look in the essay section for 79-E30n which has an illustration of a similar
type nearby. The center portion (vignette) is surrounded by perforations
within the design in the case of the "n" type. Note however: even if the
vignette were removed, the frame is clearly identified for "U.S. Postage."
Perhaps you could describe the items you are trying to investigate?
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Henry Dunsmore
>From: kebl...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Christopher M Dickson)
>Subject: Stamps with holes in - help!
>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 94 08:35:06 BST
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Perhaps he is refering to New Zealand's recent issue of a round stamp. I
don't know what the rest of the paper looked like ie. square with circle
inside it or circle with square around it - but it could have been somone '
playing a trick' on innocents.