Stamps without teeth on 2 or 3 sides

I collect all teeth possibilities from each US stamp: so if a stamps
was also issued in modern booklets I collect all kind one side
without teeth possibilities and all kind of 2 side without teeth
possibilities. In Scott I find what is possible and try to find.

I find also from time to time stamps (before 1940) that was not issued
in booklets and the same possibilities. Some friends told me here
those stamps are combing from pane (or sheet) edge of stamps and have
a very educed value. Is this right and where can I find the Scotts
number from stamps I can find so.

Jean-Paul:

I find also from time to time stamps (before 1940) that was not issued
in booklets and the same possibilities. Some friends told me here
those stamps are combing from pane (or sheet) edge of stamps and have
a very educed value. Is this right and where can I find the Scotts
number from stamps I can find so.

What your friends tell you is correct. Those stamps are referred to as
'straight edge'. They do come from the very edge of a pane/sheet of
stamps and many collectors (over here in the US) do not care for them.

However they were issued much earlier than 1940. The issues that come
to mind easily are the Colombian issues of 1893, the Trans-Mississippi
Exposition issues of 1898 and the Louisiana Purchase issues of 1904,
although I'm sure there were others. However the higher values of
each of these issues can be staggering as to the cost. Some (even with
a straight edge) can cost thousands of dollars.

The next starting place would be the coil stamps of 1908-1910 - these
are perforated either vertically or horizontally - but these too can
be very expensive, the cheapest and most common, Scott 348 one cent in
used condition is valued at $19.00, Scott 356 in mint condition is
valued at $1100.00. I'm using the 2002 catalog so these values may be
low.

I do not know of a specific catalog offering Scott values for these
straight edge stamps - Scott does give values for the coil stamps.

Handshakes,


Dakota

DROGER Jean-Paul wrote:
I collect all teeth possibilities from each US stamp: so if a stamps
was also issued in modern booklets I collect all kind one side
without teeth possibilities and all kind of 2 side without teeth
possibilities. In Scott I find what is possible and try to find.

I find also from time to time stamps (before 1940) that was not issued
in booklets and the same possibilities. Some friends told me here
those stamps are combing from pane (or sheet) edge of stamps and have
a very educed value. Is this right and where can I find the Scotts
number from stamps I can find so.

Scott does not assign specific catalog numbers for stamps with one or
more straight edges from being on the edge of a sheet or pane. The
Michel and Stanley Gibbons catalogs do so, for some countries at least,
but that will not help much when corresponding with dealers and
collectors in the US.

= Eric

Thank you for all your answers, I'll continue to search and keep such
stamps, but those with 2 sides without perforations are not easy to
find and should be more valueted! For those stamps it is perhaps the
same that perfins: 50 yeras ago when I began to collect nobody
coolected it here in France and they had no value, definitives and
commemoratives; now some of them have a very high value and of letter
they are very scarce.