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Can someone help Identify this
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I don't collect Peru and have no experience with them, but in my Scott it looks like #118.
Chris
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Yes, it is Peru, Scott #118.
What you are seeing on the back is a grill. Peru, along with the USA, is one of the few countries that used grills to dissuade people from cleaning the cancels from stamps so that the stamps could be reused. The grill would cut the paper fibers whereby the ink from the cancel would soak into the broken paper fibers supposedly making it impossible to remove the cancel.
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My Scott catalog (2008 Edition) shows this stamp as Illustration A17 Sun God of the Incas although the Stamp in question appears above the listing for 118 which is what confused me,
I guess Scott makes mistakes from time to time, the stamp I have is shown with no number
Thanks very much Gentleman
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It is an A17, but it is overprinted. The pic above 118 is of the overprint and the stamp beneath is faded away, as they do with all overprint pics.
Chris
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"It is an A17, but it is overprinted. The pic above 118 is of the overprint and the stamp beneath is faded away, as they do with all overprint pics."
Thanks, I'm having a Blonde moment
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re: Peru Need Help
I don't collect Peru and have no experience with them, but in my Scott it looks like #118.
Chris
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re: Peru Need Help
Yes, it is Peru, Scott #118.
What you are seeing on the back is a grill. Peru, along with the USA, is one of the few countries that used grills to dissuade people from cleaning the cancels from stamps so that the stamps could be reused. The grill would cut the paper fibers whereby the ink from the cancel would soak into the broken paper fibers supposedly making it impossible to remove the cancel.
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re: Peru Need Help
My Scott catalog (2008 Edition) shows this stamp as Illustration A17 Sun God of the Incas although the Stamp in question appears above the listing for 118 which is what confused me,
I guess Scott makes mistakes from time to time, the stamp I have is shown with no number
Thanks very much Gentleman
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re: Peru Need Help
It is an A17, but it is overprinted. The pic above 118 is of the overprint and the stamp beneath is faded away, as they do with all overprint pics.
Chris
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re: Peru Need Help
"It is an A17, but it is overprinted. The pic above 118 is of the overprint and the stamp beneath is faded away, as they do with all overprint pics."
Thanks, I'm having a Blonde moment
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