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Hello again Steve. This month I have learned much more about perforation errors. Looking through some old Rattlesnake Island Local Post Inc inventory I discovered several perf errors from 1967-1973.
Also, in talking with Portland Stamp Company I have come to the conclusion the stamps from 67-73 were not perforated with a die but used the same kind of 80-100 year old machine Portland Stamp Company uses to apply in-line perf 12's. Roughly 3-5 sheets would be laid in the machine which would apply 1 row of perfs each time and then moved for the next row. This would take 15 motions as there are 5 horizontal, 5 diagonal left, & 5 diagonal right rows. Of course forgeries may exists, however I believe there are many perf errors from 1967-73 that exist. Also, I came across 3 error lists for sale from the 1979 & the 80's from Jacob Kisner New York, NY. His mailing included how they bought a large inventory of sheets from the RILP, Inc. and found the errors throughout the stock.
I started an ERRORS tab and posted the ones I personally found in the RILP, Inc. Inventory I purchased with the company rights. Dave Gill
I have a question about apparent perforation errors on early RILP sheets. I have a 1971 sheet that is perforate but is imperforate along one dagonal. Barbour's book on page 30 suggests these "errors" may be forgeries in which an imperforate sheet was taken and then perforations were irregularly applied. I presume this would have been done to trump up value. Barbour relates a communication from Bob Fritz in which the latter states because the perforations were applied via a die at least in the early productions, such perforation errors would have been impossible. Anyone have any insights about this. Steve Altic.