Lot 94 Canada #225var 20c Olive Green Niagara Falls, 1935 KGV Pictorial Issue, 2 Very Good/Fine Used Singles With 4 Hole OHMS Perfins, Pos. A & 4 Hole, Pos C

A fine used single of the 20c olive green Niagara Falls from the 1935 KGV Pictorial Issue with 4 hole OHMS perfins, pos. A & 4 hole, pos C.

The perfs are cut on one of the stamps. This reduces the grade from VF to VG.

Unitrade values these at $30. The stamps offered here grade 58 and 70 as follows:

Centering/Margins: 40/60, 35/60

Paper Freshness: 5/5

Colour: 5/5

Impression: 5/5

Absence of Visible Paper Flaws: 5/5

Perforations: 10/10

Cancellation: 8/10, 5/10

Adjustment for mentioned faults: -20 points.

The 5-Hole OHMS overprints are covered in this last week's blog post. Unitrade de-listed a number of these in 2021 after findings published by the BNAPS study group suggested that a number of them were not ever issued. However, we do not agree that their findings are conclusive, for reasons explained in the detailed post. Although different dies were used for the perfin, it is reasonable to suggest that a given perfin should be genuine if it matches a known certified example. However, we do not have a certified example from the Carr collection. However we would note that Mr. Carr purchased all of his stamps from reputable dealers and it seems to us that if all of the stamps exhibit the same hole pattern that this would support the notion that they are genuine, since the chances that any two fakes would exhibit the exact same placement of holes is very small. We laid each stamp over top of the others and note that except as noted, all of these stamps had hole patterns that lined up perfectly with one another. Generally speaking, the pattern A's and D's seem to be the most common, with B, F, G and H being far less common. For the 4-Hole perfins we checked these by overlaying them on a known genuine inexpensive perfin, like a mint O9-C6, which would not be faked as it catalogues the same as a stamp without a perfin. The 4-hole perfin in this case may not be genuine, as the holes did not quite line up to the mint O9-C6 that we tested it against.