CoL49 Group Reading - Week 1 Summary & Questions

[Joseph Tracy]

Oops

> On May 2, 2024, at 3:07 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> I don’t really read a lot of Pynchon criticism, some, yes, but I prefer to search things out for myself, so anyway I had not heard this reference. I too looked it up and my best find was the inverted Jenny, which I mentioned earlier. The only mention of piercing was another stamp that was rare because the perforations on the edge were off somehow and the stamps were  cut or pierced. Nothing that had the whole phrase "pierced inverted rarity", so I am skeptical until someone has a something  more than memory. Here is a seemingly very thorough  list of stamp errors by an auctioneer house for collectibles. Perforation errors are called imperforate or misperforate, not pierced and where I read about a collectible pierced stamp the word pierced was not used as a stamp collector term but just as a descriptive term of how the error occurred.
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> https://www.warwickandwarwick.com/news/guides/rare-error-stamps
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>> On Apr 30, 2024, at 6:43 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Everybody probably knows the lore tidbit about “Pierce Inverarity” being
>> very similar to stamp collecting terms, as in “pierced inverse rarity”
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>> But I’m trying to remember a source for that - didn’t have any success with
>> a cursory Google.
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>> Will find it eventually but assistance wd be appreciated
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