Help with early New Zealand stamp....specifically the type of perforations.
This is New Zealand, Type One stamp. Not all the perfs have been punched out. Can anyone tell from these pics what kind of perforation was used?
BTW....I posted this pretty similar question on the Postage Chat Stamp Board, figuring New Zealand stamps might be go interest. Unfortunately, I used the word "perfin" instead of "perfs", and I erroneously referred to the stamp as "Number One" instead of "Type One". For these horrible misleading errors, I have been ridiculed and banned for 30 days. My second suspension for being not just stupid, but lazy. Unbelievable!!
BTW....I posted this pretty similar question on the Postage Chat Stamp Board, figuring New Zealand stamps might be go interest. Unfortunately, I used the word "perfin" instead of "perfs", and I erroneously referred to the stamp as "Number One" instead of "Type One". For these horrible misleading errors, I have been ridiculed and banned for 30 days. My second suspension for being not just stupid, but lazy. Unbelievable!!
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Man! I wish I could help with this one. All I can say is it looks like it is mis-perfed, re-perfed (poorly), scissor trimmed in a couple places...kind of a hot mess. I am admittedly not a NZ specialist so this may be a stamp that has/had value but it really looks pretty damaged to my eyes.
Greg
The image here gets a little blurry so it makes it hard to tell just what that line of color is. Can you get a better photo with clear focus on the lower edge of the stamp?
But if we look at right, there are some perfs that are ok, and some that are not. So it appears that the stamp was scissor cut (especially at bottom and right, but probably at top as well) in order to separate it, because the perfs were so intermittent. There evidence from the back of this as well, particularly across the bottom. There are semi-circular ridges where the perf should be all along the bottom, and a few if you look closely at left (now left, right from front, but it's turned over).
Also, if you look at upper left of the stamp from the front, between the two perf holes there is one semi-cut perf, still attached.
This was one disaster of a perforation machine.
Kidding aside....amazing this one ugly sucker could gain so much honest and interesting discussion. Thanks folks!