Comments on: A swedish coil stamp mystery

By: Fred Muguruza

Fred Muguruza — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:18:28 +0000

Yes they are…I have a few of those mainly with the Nobel Prize series, but now you mentioned, I’ll check my swedish lot thoroughly…

By: Keijo

Keijo — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:21:54 +0000

@Paul… Thanks for the info.

I just recently got another large batch of Swedish stamps – and there were few more stamps with varying coil joins. I’ll try to showcase those some day A bit bizarrely I haven’t found any similar from other countries; maybe it’s just bad luck (or then the Swedish one are extremely common).

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:23:42 +0000

Hi there Keijo,

I agree with Pablo on the junctions. I have seen many of those examples from the Netherlands and Germany.

I also agree with Cees. I also saw a lot of examples were clerks didn’t remoce the stamp properly. There are ven examples were the stamps are cut in half.

Best regard,
Paul

By: Cees Janssen

Cees Janssen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:48:15 +0000

I suppose the stamp from Sweden with the so-called diamond perforation was created bij the teeth of the container of the roll at the postoffice desk. When the stamp is separated, the teeth can make an extra perforation on the bridges between the perforationholes of the stamp. In the Netherlands, it happened frequently.

By: Blair

Blair — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:56:40 +0000

Sometimes booklet panes are only one stamp wide. In such examples, the last stamp on the booklet pane may have three sides imperforate and middle stamps may look like coils, once renoved from the booklet.

Blair