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Alastair
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by Alastair » 30 Apr 2008 05:15
Hi,
The Britisk PO came out this year with a series "Rescue at Sea" which has a novel and interesting use of perforations. Instead of the usual regular perfs, they read SOS in morse along the top and bottom of the stamps.
It's easier to see when two stamps are still attached!
Have similar novelty perforations been produced elsewhere?
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by crosscrescent » 30 Apr 2008 17:20
That's cute.
Cheers
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by iomoon » 04 May 2008 04:23
Portugal has produced a set of stamps with the Cruz de Christo (Cross of Christ) as a "syncopated" perf.
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by GlenStephens » 04 May 2008 04:30
How interesting.
I'd love to get the GB set in a high rez scan to use in "Stamp News" .. does anyone have one?
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by iomoon » 04 May 2008 04:39
Do you want the individual stamps or conjoined stamps illustrating the pattern? The first I can do.
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by Alastair » 04 May 2008 05:11
Sorry, Glen. I only have those two!
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by ozstamps » 04 May 2008 05:15
Iomoon ...... need to be pairs to show the perfs.
Alastair .. can you email me hi rez of that used one please?
glen at glenstephens.com
Do you know isuse date and how many in set?
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by Alastair » 04 May 2008 05:32
That image was at 600 dpi. What resolution would you like?
The came out 13 March 2008. There are six in the set. SG 4144 - 4149.
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by iomoon » 04 May 2008 05:35
Six stamps
Issued March 13th, 2008
Design: Hat-trick design
Printer: Walsall Security
Lithograph
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by GlenStephens » 05 May 2008 01:09
iomoon wrote: Portugal has produced a set of stamps with the Cruz de Christo (Cross of Christ) as a "syncopated" perf.
Thanks Alastair for the superb scan!
Iomoon .. could you please email me a sharp scan of that one, glen at glenstephens.com and do you know issue date fo that one?
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by iomoon » 05 May 2008 01:45
On its way.
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by GlenStephens » 05 May 2008 01:55
Superb! Many thanks. I'll use both in my next column.
Can you or
Nuno let me know how many were in this set please?
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by iomoon » 05 May 2008 02:09
According to the booklet kindly supplied by Nuno, the 61cent had a printing of 230,000 in sheets of 50 stamps.
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by GlenStephens » 05 May 2008 02:13
So it was stand alone and not part of a set?
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by iomoon » 05 May 2008 02:31
No it was part of a set of four
30 cent - 280,000
45 cent - 230,000
61 cent - 230,000
75 cent - 200,000
which, compared to US and GB stamps is a pretty small number.
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by Nuno_Silva » 05 May 2008 08:01
That is correct!
More stamps with the Cruz de Cristo.
Now all the stamps issued by Portugal have this feature.
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by GlenStephens » 05 May 2008 12:10
Nuno ... that is interesting .. so ALL current issues have this cross?
Did it start with the Volcano issue Iomoon posted?
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by iomoon » 06 May 2008 02:04
Nope, it appears to have started with the arrival in Brazil issue that Nuno illustrated above.
Issued on January 22nd.
But has been on all stamps since.
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by ozstamps » 06 May 2008 02:05
Great info - thanks folks!
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by Alastair » 06 May 2008 05:23
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by kedwaven » 06 May 2008 10:14
So are these comb or line perfs???
Die cut but assume by your winks you already knew that
Now for the silly question
Does that mean they were cut with something like a cookie cutter
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by GlenStephens » 10 May 2008 01:20
kedwaven wrote:
Does that mean they were cut with something like a cookie cutter
I heard they hired lots of little old grannies with sharp scissors.
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by kedwaven » 10 May 2008 22:09
I heard they hired lots of little old grannies with sharp scissors.
LOL Knowing the UK employment market nowadays they
were probably Polish grannies aswell
PS. no offence to polish workers i actually worked
with a couple and they were ok guys
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by ozstamps » 12 May 2008 21:55
kedwaven wrote:
LOL Knowing the UK employment market nowadays they
were probably Polish grannies aswell
PS. no offence to polish workers i actually worked
with a couple and they were ok guys
The Polish grannies were
GUYS???!!!!
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