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Europe/Great Britain : Booklet versus SA stamps?

 

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14 Aug 2020
10:52:57am

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Specifically Gb #'s 2627-2632 & 2633-2638 as well as several other issues> Geez! I can't tell the difference between them. any help would be appreciated. Should include a pic?
BTW: I agree agree with Johnny Rockets. GB stamps are my favorite country to collect.
Mmuch more interesting than U.S.
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14 Aug 2020
11:55:36am
re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

The perfs are different - the SAG perfs are perfectly uniform. I'm not sure of the actual perf count though.

Compare what you have to a known WAG - ie water activated gum issue - and it will be obvious.

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14 Aug 2020
03:30:09pm
re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

As Theresa says, check the perf edges, on SA they are smooth and uniform, the WAG ones will be uneven and the fibre ends will show easily where they have been torn.
On the set you mention one has Phosphor lines the other is on phosphorized paper (SA). The WAG ones came from a booklet pane.

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Brechinite

14 Aug 2020
03:31:48pm
re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

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Sometimes it is better to look at the back of the stamps. The one on the left is self adhesive and the one on the right from a sheet.
Note the uniformity of perf on the left and the irregular "torn" perfs on the right.

The same stamps from the front:-

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18 Aug 2020
11:16:43am

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re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

Thanks, all. that's what I thought but looking at examples on Hipstamp , they all look the same. BTW: there are hundreds of SA's listed as water activated stamps on Hipstamp.

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19 Aug 2020
01:16:34am
re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

" .... listed as water activated stamps on Hipstamp ...."

I guess some people are in for a surprise. Soaking
some SA's in water sometimes causes the stamp to
crinkle and become just about worthless.

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Brechinite

19 Aug 2020
11:26:23am
re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

The initial self adhesives like the submarines above can be easily soaked off with water.

From 2008 they changed the adhesive and water just does not do the job and like Charlie says the stamp crinkles and is uncollectable.

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Stampaholic

14 Aug 2020
10:52:57am

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Specifically Gb #'s 2627-2632 & 2633-2638 as well as several other issues> Geez! I can't tell the difference between them. any help would be appreciated. Should include a pic?
BTW: I agree agree with Johnny Rockets. GB stamps are my favorite country to collect.
Mmuch more interesting than U.S.

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philatelia

14 Aug 2020
11:55:36am

re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

The perfs are different - the SAG perfs are perfectly uniform. I'm not sure of the actual perf count though.

Compare what you have to a known WAG - ie water activated gum issue - and it will be obvious.

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sheepshanks

14 Aug 2020
03:30:09pm

re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

As Theresa says, check the perf edges, on SA they are smooth and uniform, the WAG ones will be uneven and the fibre ends will show easily where they have been torn.
On the set you mention one has Phosphor lines the other is on phosphorized paper (SA). The WAG ones came from a booklet pane.

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Brechinite

14 Aug 2020
03:31:48pm

re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

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Sometimes it is better to look at the back of the stamps. The one on the left is self adhesive and the one on the right from a sheet.
Note the uniformity of perf on the left and the irregular "torn" perfs on the right.

The same stamps from the front:-

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18 Aug 2020
11:16:43am

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re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

Thanks, all. that's what I thought but looking at examples on Hipstamp , they all look the same. BTW: there are hundreds of SA's listed as water activated stamps on Hipstamp.

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" I have a burning love for stamps. Lord A'mighty ,feel my temperature risin'! "

Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
19 Aug 2020
01:16:34am

re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

" .... listed as water activated stamps on Hipstamp ...."

I guess some people are in for a surprise. Soaking
some SA's in water sometimes causes the stamp to
crinkle and become just about worthless.

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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
Brechinite

19 Aug 2020
11:26:23am

re: Booklet versus SA stamps?

The initial self adhesives like the submarines above can be easily soaked off with water.

From 2008 they changed the adhesive and water just does not do the job and like Charlie says the stamp crinkles and is uncollectable.

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