perforating machine

Marty Feldman · Sep 9, 2019

Another lots-to-look-at from Shorpy. This one is from 1938, US Bureau of Engraving & Printing. The machine produces the perforations on sheets of stamps.

-Marty-

4GSR · Sep 9, 2019

What's the deal with the funny shaped hats? is that to keep the little "dots" from getting in the hair?

DDoug · Sep 9, 2019

4GSR said:
What's the deal with the funny shaped hats? is that to keep the little "dots" from getting in the hair?

I figured as such, much like when working in a pressroom, the guys would always make a hat from the paper.

M.B. Naegle · Sep 9, 2019

1938? I didn't think the government was trying to read people's minds that far back.... (the hats)

Marty Feldman · Sep 10, 2019

digger doug said:
I figured as such, much like when working in a pressroom, the guys would always make a hat from the paper.

That's correct from what I have read. Many pressroom guys would apparently knock out a fresh one each morning, from newsprint or any old paper source around. They were often box-shaped, unlike the cone shapes seen in the photograph.

-Marty-

4GSR · Sep 10, 2019

But no postage stamp sheets were used? Or even rejected ones.

Ries · Sep 10, 2019

I have a friend who is an artist who has been making his own (non-US Mail) stamps for over 40 years now, and he has an antique one row perforating machine- it has stops, but to perforate a whole sheet of stamps, you need to use it a dozen or more times- once for each vertical row, once for each horizontal row. But it works.

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