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Identifying the sources of single Wilding stamps
SOURCE VARIETIES: upright watermark stamps from sheets and booklet
panes do not necessarily have margins attached: sources are distinguished by the
condition of the perforations:
SHEET STAMPS have perfs. separated by tearing (fibrous ends) on
all sides.
BOOKLET STAMPS from PANES 0F SIX have perforations guillotined
on one side (top or bottom), or on two adjacent sides (top/right)., with perforations
on other sides torn except where a margin, if present, is attached.
BOOKLET STAMPS from PANES OF FOUR have perforations guillotined
on one side (left or right), or on two adjacent sides (bottom/left), with perforations
on other sides torn except where a margin, if present, is attached.
Stamps with guillotined perforations on right/bottom adjacent two sides can be from
booklet panes of four or of six so are not supplied as authentication of source
(to avoid confusion between these two styles of booklet panes).
BOOKLET STAMPS from PANES OF TWO have top & bottom perforations
guillotined, perforations at right torn, and will be supplied with margin at left
to distinguish them from horizontal coil stamps (see below).
BOOKLET STAMPS from Tudor or St.Edward 1d. labels panes will be
supplied with appropriate label attached
HORIZONTAL COIL stamps have top & bottom perforations guillotined,
left & right perforations torn, as have
SIDEWAYS COIL stamps which, of course, also have sideways watermark.
VERTICAL COIL stamps have left and right perforations guillotined,
top & bottom perforations torn.
In addition to the above, please note: stamps from coils made up
from sheets (that is those coils which also include coil joins) have the sheet margins
at the vertical sides of the sheets (in the case of vertical coils) or from the
horizontal sides of the sheets (in the case of horizontal coils) removed by tearing.
The result of this is that upright watermark coil stamps do exist with perforations
on three edges torn and just one side guillotined. In so far as stocks permit I
will supply coil stamps with perforations on two opposite edges guillotined; otherwise
some coil stamps supplied will have guillotined edge on left or right only.