OK,, I did it, my fault....when people cannot read or know my signature ( which happens alot), I often tell them that it's really a Richter Scale sample. Californians understand that one.
I've been known to Fib, John, especially on my caffeine intake.....Local coffee shop had a sign at the register saying: "unattended children will be given an expresso and a puppy". Greg hasn't seen my polygraph punctuation ...hoo boy!
I bet the guy went through a whole box of wax pencils on that strip!!!!!! How would he ever get a true baseline????? I did one of those for a job interview about 40 years ago. Swore I would never do another one again and never did... Lied through through the whole thing and still didn't get the job. Bizarre.
Doug, I agree. I see these kind of marks all the time. Some turn out to be some old owners mark, some a dealers mark from years ago, a few are actual "expertizer" marks. I personally feel that whatever they are, they can add to the "story" of the stamp although some may feel they are defacements. It was most certainly a much more common practice in the early part of the 20th century than now thankfully although it might be kind of funny to see a modern US PSA forever stamp in a hundred years that has one of these on its back.
Arthur M. Hind (1922-1932, cloverleaf "AH" within seventeen-point handstamp on reverse); Frederick Trouton Small (1940-1970, comet handstamp on reverse; also initialed in pencil "FK" by his agent Finbar Kenny); Irwin Weinberg and Associates (1970-1980, pencil "IW" on reverse); John Eluthiere Du Pont (1980-2014, pencil "JEdP" on reverse); Stuart Weitzman (2014-2021, pencil drawn stiletto and initialed SW on reverse).
This is from Sotheby's presentation of the upcoming 1cent Magenta Sale. I post it only to illustrate how common it was for owners to add an owners mark. A very dated practice Dan
That old ugly magenta doesn’t seem to carry itself on the beauty , but rather on the provenance . I saw it once and never again will I expend time to view it except to marvel at those who crave being part of its history. But it’s just ugly . No wonder folks post graffiti on the back of it , a small super expensive toilet stall .
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Might it be an owners mark?
Dan
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Arthur M. Hind (1922-1932, cloverleaf "AH" within seventeen-point handstamp on reverse);
Frederick Trouton Small (1940-1970, comet handstamp on reverse; also initialed in pencil "FK" by his agent Finbar Kenny);
Irwin Weinberg and Associates (1970-1980, pencil "IW" on reverse);
John Eluthiere Du Pont (1980-2014, pencil "JEdP" on reverse);
Stuart Weitzman (2014-2021, pencil drawn stiletto and initialed SW on reverse).
This is from Sotheby's presentation of the upcoming 1cent Magenta Sale. I post it only to illustrate how common it was for owners to add an owners mark. A very dated practice Dan