CoL49 Group Reading - Week 1 Summary & Questions

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks for the details, I ran into the same lack of confirmation for the
(too-pat?) reading of “pierced inverse rarity”



On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 3:27 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

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> 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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> Stamp errors explained: The definitive guide to rare error stamps
> <https://www.warwickandwarwick.com/news/guides/rare-error-stamps>
> warwickandwarwick.com
> <https://www.warwickandwarwick.com/news/guides/rare-error-stamps>
> <https://www.warwickandwarwick.com/news/guides/rare-error-stamps>
> <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>
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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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