Newfoundland 5c seal imperforate?

Blair--thanks. Eliminating possibilities helps greatly.

Stan

"Blair (TC)" wrote in message oups.com...
Stan:

Well it is NOT cut from a postal stationery
or postal card or newspaper band as NO
5c existed until 1890 and that was a 5c
light blue Queen Victoria envelope.

Regards
Blair

Stan

Blair--thanks. Eliminating possibilities helps greatly.

Interestingly Yvert ("Terre-Neuve, No 34") indicates that imperfs of
the 5 cents exist (though not of the other three in the 1876-79
series) but doesn't give a valuation for them!

Michael
Michael Meadowcroft
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Thanks to all whom provided information. This includes a private message copied below to almost complete the story.


First, I should say I know nothing about Canadian issues, but I have seen
any number of rouletted and pin perf stamps from the Indian States. An
obvious explanation - to me at least - is a combination of an exasperated
post office counter clerk with a pair of scissors simply cutting the stamp
from the sheet, and a customer concerned by all that extra weight caused by
the unnecessary margins around the stamp. In the Indian States (Duttia and
Kishengarh are examples) the collector is regularly faced by rouletted and
pin perf stamps imperf on or more sides.


The last piece of information is that there is a specialized Newfoundland catalogue, complete with Internet web site.
I've sent a request for help to the editor and am awaiting a response.

As two catalogues (Gibbons and Yvert et Tellier) do list the 5 cent blue rouletted stamp as existing imperforate, and as
the right and left margins seem awfully large to be rouletted and not show any trace thereof, I'm now inclined to think
the stamp is imperforate at least horizontally. The above comment from the collector of Indian Native States stamps
would help explain the possible rouletting in areas of top and bottom, and the accompanying absence of rouletting
elsewhere at top and bottom. In any case, thanks again.

Stan