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Papua New Guinea Commonwealth Games / ANPEX82 postage stamp - new perforation variety
Moving forth with this months theme of perforation varieties, below is a pair of Papua New Guinea (PNG) Commonwealth Games/ANPEX 1982 stamps. The leftside stamp has got the usual perforation (14¾), whereas the latter is clearly something more different and complex. The question that interests me is the variety genuine, or is it just a by-result of paper shrinkage/expansion.
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