How many perforations does my stamp have? 10? 11? 12? Watch this video and find out how to correctly identify how many perforations your stamp has! #stamps #stampcollecting #rarestamps #usastamps
I really appreciate your videos they are very informative I recently inherited my father's collection and I mean collection he had purchased multiple small collections over years and now I am learning as i go. You should see some of the little envelopes that hadn't been touched in 50 years or more they were discolored and the tape that sealed them up was dark from age and crumbled when I opened them. I took some pics of everything that came out of each individual envelope. I am interested in learning some of the values to possibly sale duplicates. Again thank you for your knowledge and beginner collectors videos I am finding it very helpful and valuable.
Hello I enjoy your videos Thank You So Much , Question I have a 2 Cent stamp unlike the stamp on your video my two Cent is more curved. I also have what seams to be a white cross inverted where could IGET MY STAMPED IDENTIFIED.
I am a new stamp collector which may be the reason for my observation and lack of understanding, but when you line up a stamp on your gauge it looks like you frequently ignore a perforation on the left corner of the stamp. What am I not understanding?
Just discovered your beginner videos, and they are really helpful. When watermark testing, is it possible to test mint stamps for watermarks without damaging the gum? I'm keen not to decrease the value of an MNH stamp accidentally through doing a watermark test.
Thank you, if I might make a correction, you stated definitive stamps were issued from 1908 - to 1921 or 1922 clearly an error. Definitive stamps for the United States issued by the U. S. Government were issued starting in 1847. In order to make it easier to measure the perfs, it is much better and easier to measure from the reverse side of the stamp!
Thanks for this video, I have one of these stamps but the perf gauge says it's 10 and I can't find 10 listed anywhere? According to this there are only 12, 11 or 8.5 and it positively doesn't match any of these. So do you measure long side, short side or should they have identical perfs? because I see 12v and 12H, assuming this means Vertical and Horizontal, but whichever side i measure I get Perf 10... So I'm very confused now.
U. S. stamps perforations are measured in thousands of an inch. Most foreign stamps are measured in MM! Make sure you get a proper gauge! Metal is more accurate.
Maybe a few dollars each, most definitives are not worth much, watermarks and perfs determine stamps of lesser value from those that have a lot of value
The stamp series that you using to show perforations was not called "definitives", although it is an example of a definitive, which is any series of stamps produced over a number of years or a long period of time, and the subject on the stamp does not commemorate an event. Common name for the series in the stamp collecting world which you are using as an example is called the "Washington-Franklins". The more accurate name in philatelic terms is called "Third Bureau Issues". By the way, those perf numbers (ie, perf 11), it is defined as the number of holes on the stamp over a distance of 2 centimeters (cm).
