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#8251377 and #7577989 are the same stamp Edifil no. 1000. By the way, Edifil Unificado 1923 (Spain's national catalogue) gives the issue date as April 7, 1947, not March 1947 as stated on both stamps.
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I'm a layman, but I can clearly see different perforations.

PS is that catalog called Edifil or Edfil?

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A similar stamp was issued in May 1949. The entry (Michel number, date of issue) is the same for both stamps.

The image at #7577989 where 'toothed' is entered appears to be the issue of April 7, 1947 (Edifil number 1000). This has serrations 9 1/2 x 10 1/4 and is part of the series under #679589 which appears to combine Edifil numbers 999, 1060, and 1061, instead of numbers 999 (September 5, 1946), 1000 (April 7, 1947). ) and 1001 (September 5, 1946).

The image at #8251377 where a serration 9 3/4 has been filled in appears to be the May 1949 issue (Edifil number 1060) with serration 12 3/4 x 13 1/4. This stamp, as well as number 1061 also shown at #679589 , belong to the series 'Cid y General Franco' (1949 - 1953) which does not appear to appear in the catalog at all.

If the starting point is that the variants - a Spanish collector will think differently about this - are not recorded separately, then this is really a duplication. If each perforation variety is recorded separately, the images are examples of the two perforations, but the input is otherwise a mixed bag and, where data has already been entered, the details are included in the wrong images.
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Collectioneur, stripspeldjes correctly notes that the name of the Spanish catalog is misspelled.

The correct name is Edifil (so with an "i" between the "d" and the "f".

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If each perforation variety is recorded separately, the images are examples of the two perforations, but the input is otherwise a mixed bag and where data has already been entered, the details are included in the wrong images.
Perforation varieties may be included as such. Here the discussion about "basic stamps" comes into play again, because #7577989 originally, in 2019, was introduced with a comb serration 9 1/2 x 10 1/4. In 2021, this stamp appears to have been "rebranded" to a "basic stamp".
Neither the original entry nor the change have been reviewed.
Also #8251377 has not yet been reviewed.

I don't have the bandwidth at the moment to come up with a ready-made solution. If it is indeed a mixture, my first reaction is to merge the stamps, which will also require considering how the issue(s) should be classified.
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stripspeldjes to illustrate what Helv wrote. Edifil publishes catalogs as well as albums and other collecting aids.



Helv I had actually seen a thread discussing the 'basic seal'.

As a collector of British 'Machins', I dare to predict that any solution could lead to a huge discussion, for which there would be plenty of examples of why it doesn't work. The other side of this coin is the risk of misinformation and in the case of a marketplace, collectors who think they buy a stamp with a catalog value of €8 and get one with a catalog value of €0.50.
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Edfil was listed this way in the supplied spreadsheet. Soon I will manually change this per country in Edifil.
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Helv etc
The Countries / Territories involved are now linked to the local Edifil catalogue.
Please check whether this has been done correctly and/or whether more Countries / Territories need to be linked to this.
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Collectioneur a small point: in Portugal (and this may also be the case in related areas) the catalog still contains Afinsa - Mundifil. That has been Mundifil for some time now. Afinsa which owned Mundifil is quite a tainted name.
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Before I start editing the 20 countries involved, I would like confirmation from Helv and/or other administrators.
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Collectioneur and Helv if this helps, this is Mundifil's website with an image of their current catalogue.

https://mundifil.pt/
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I have adjusted this stamp #679587 a bit, one was entered at LD in 2009 so it is in good condition and is also in the collection of most collectors.
Just a comment about this stamp, I wonder if this is a perforation variety because there are some who are familiar with the perforation, 12 1/2 x 13 (Yvert 793a) (not yet in LD) I would then designate this as a perforation variety.
This stamp #8251377 was only issued in 2020 and is clearly not the
9 3/4 as stated, only this item has two photos, perhaps you can take photo 1 to #679587 and then place it in place two and then put everything together.
And this stamp #7577989 is clearly the 9 3/4 x 10 1/4 and this is how it was introduced in 2019, only this was later changed to Serrated, incomprehensible to me, but it is true.
So what does one do now with this stamp turned back to 9 3/4 x 10 1/4 or so.
I would like to have a clear answer to this, otherwise all the discussions that are sometimes had about certain stamps will lead to nothing if nothing happens.
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Lyonesse In this case the two stamps differ mainly in the perforation. If you buy a series you will see that the coarse perforation is offered by Spanish dealers with two other stamps in a series and that with the finer perforation is offered in a series with two other designs.

These series are of course a reflection of how Spanish collectors view them. And those collectors and Edifil naturally push each other towards a classification. Quite honestly, the 'permanent' stamps, which are referred to in Spanish as basic stamps (series básica), appear to have often been printed in the period 1937 - 1955 according to the 'Royal Club' policy: just give me a stamp.

That is what makes the whole discussion about basic seal - apart from possible confusion of concepts - and varieties a complex one. Ultimately, such a classification is not a fact, but an opinion of a person or group of people with whom others will strongly disagree.
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Esquerdo please my personal opinion is that LS stamps catalog must only focus and be a catalog for basic stamps nothing to do with variants that each country catalog refer but other are not referring.

Here stamps collectors using LD catalog need only basic stamps, 
If you want to manage variants for Spain or whatever pay for a VIP and mane your own collection privately with all variants.

The most important is and is only that LD catalog have only basic stamps with the correct photos of these basic stamps, the right informations and catalog valuation and there are still a big work in progress  have that only for basic stamps.

Let’s variants to catalog paper specialised and done with qualified experts that know what they do and cater for the specialised collectors only.
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Frenchstamps, you might want to read my posts again. I noted that two catalog entries were for the same stamps and showing different stamps. I never suggested one should be a basic stamp and the other a variety. Quite the opposite: I suggested that if you want to limit yourself to 'basic' stamps - that I do not believe is a universal definition - one of the two is a double entry.
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If you are writing a message in English (that's fine), please check this as well. Otherwise it will not be translated for the readers.
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#8251377 is an incorrect entry. Image and stated perforation are not correct. It is therefore not an existing stamp that has been imported and should therefore, in my opinion, be rejected immediately. This kind of incorrect input will only fester in the future. No more tolerating and adjusting, but immediate rejection.
#7577989 is indeed clear as the 9 3/4 x 10 1/4 entered. The change to a basic stamp (the changes to serrated (duplicate) and from 936 A to 936) must simply be rejected. Then everything is fine again and the seal is (reasonably?) clearly defined.
#679587 was barely defined upon entry and should have been rejected immediately upon initial entry. But yes, a CAR import and the butcher inspects his own meat... Moreover, back then it was more about quantity than quality. A Michel number 936 (undefined), a year 1946 that is incorrect anyway (1947 or 1949, according to Michel), an NVPH number (177-2) that means nothing to me and an image with perforation 12 3/4 x 13 1/4. Perhaps intended as a basic stamp, but converted to the stamp from 1949 (Michel 936 B, 1949, perforation 12 3/4 x 13 1/4). Because a basic stamp is not necessary here (everyone can count teeth and for those who cannot, it is not important to know the exact variant), I can live with the conversion to Michel 936 B.
Then you are left with 2 stamps: 936 A from 1947 ( #7577989 ) and 936 B from 1949 (according to Scott 1948) ( #679587 ).
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Esquerdo I understand your point of view.
Just don’t forget that catalogs content are made by professional stamps dealers and some experts that are anyway link k to stamps business and that many variants are not real variants or not important ones and they are not deserving the high difference in prices versus the Basic seal . All is business. 


This is why my basic seal definition is that is the least expensive as it is the most common.  Many variants in serious catalogs are even at same price that basic steal because they are not scare at all but common ones. Some are overpriced by business decisions of stamp dealers not all are honest it is a business and if I am right Edifil had collaborated with AFINSA a business that got some criminal charges for bad practices towards collectors in the past ? Is it true @Esquerdo ? Just remember and don’t trust Edifil.
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It continues to amaze me that people here think that perforation is the same as counting teeth. The perforation is the number of perforations per two centimeters. If the stamp is two centimeters wide you can do this approximately. If the stamp is not, then perforation 15 x 14 is not the same as 'counting 15 teeth.'
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Esquerdo how do you explain logically that such differences in perforations appear in the process of some stamps ? For some we got proof that it was a mistake in process or change in perforations as there are official documentation to proove  in many case we have no proof that it is not a stamps dealer forgeries or an error that was sold or done on request of stamps dealers against money with internal complicity of printing employees.

We know that happens a lot variants made just for stamps dealers against money to fool collectors this is why without proof that it is a real variant not one listed in catalog made by stamps dealers we need to list on LD only real variants and it is unrealistic to ask LD catalog administrators to check that point.

So agree with idea to list clearly on LD catalog only the Basic Seal collectors of variants anyway will never use for that LD catalog but various specific catalog and book studying specific stamps series only.

LD catalog as said in this forum as a reply from administrators cater for the medium stamp collector that want only the Basic seal , if you are into variants LD catalog is not for you and you got as me certainly many catalogs and studies , my library about French stamps have over 50 specialised books.
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Esquerdo Frenchstamps
Lastdodo heeft een paar uitgangspunten in het basishandboek (manuals):
1 Regels voor het wel of niet in de catalogus opnemen van objecten. 
In principe nemen we verzamelwaardige objecten op die aan een aantal voorwaarden voldoen: 
*In deze vorm in serie vervaardigd en (meestal) in omloop gebracht. 
*Het bezit moet volgens de Europese wetgeving zijn toegestaan. 
*Er moet sprake zijn van een fysiek object. 
*Het object moet fysiek afwijken van reeds in de catalogus opgenomen objecten. 

Wat betreft de laatste voorwaarde:
Lastdodo streeft ernaar om alle verschillende varianten van verzamelwaardige objecten op te nemen en te beschrijven. Als een object op grond van niet verwijderbare uiterlijke kenmerken te onderscheiden is als een andere uitgave of versie van iets mag het als nieuw item in de catalogus. 

Varianten horen dus zeker in de catalogus thuis. Of er bij de basiszegel sprake is van een fysiek object kan betwijfeld worden. Aan de andere kant biedt het ook een praktische oplossing voor een aantal problemen.
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az60 Your answer is not translated it is in NL and I cater only with English but will use an outside translator to read it
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Frenchstamps Most perforation changes in Britsih stamps are well documented in the archives of the printers. The presses and perforators have been documented. The same holds for other countries. ForSpanish stamps, you will note the variations are due to the period in which they were printed or the printer that was used. The suggestion these are just errors or may not even be excluded as forgeries is preposterous. Or are you going to suggest that the different printers and calendar years also may be forgeries?
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It continues to amaze me that people here think that perforation is the same as counting teeth.
I don't know who thinks that. But in this case that I'm talking about, the differences are clearly visible, aren't they? But if you believe that there are size differences or small teeth differences that result in the same number of teeth, be my guest and put them in the catalogue.
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Esquerdo I know from insiders in printing for French stamps what happens in reality no more comment never trust or you waste your money for nothing.

Now for British or Spanish stamps that an other stories I focus on what is my speciality French stamps but I got informations too from British and Spanish stamps collectors that have some doubts about some variants from others well documented of course no problems.
 
but for some other countries even I don’t trust their official printers documents. For this countries, including Monaco don’t trust after all selling to collectors is why they are into philately just a state business.

I sold many countries stamps that I was collecting because of that before what happens some years after I sold them the fall of their market demand. 

What I say is that for all stamps after 1900 most were made for collectors and for France this is particularly reality for stamps before 1914.

Old German states and their reprint in the XIX century have also the same problems think Tours and Taxis stamps, Hanover stamps…. An other school case Heligoland stamps.
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Now for British or Spanish stamps that an other stories I focus on what is my speciality French stamps but I got informations too from British and Spanish stamps collectors that have some doubts about some variants from others well documented of course no problems.

Some forgeries exist. Those tend to be those where one stamp has been altered to make it pass for the other. The doubt about some catalogued perforations being outright forgeries is pure speculation for the UK as those are documented in archive material from the printers that even include government institutions, often postal archives. And for the Spanish ones there is little doubt about the ones from 1937 up to now. Altering stamps to make them look like others is not the same as creating new varieties.

  For this countries, including Monaco don’t trust after all selling to collectors is why they are into philately just a state business.  ... What I say is that for all stamps after 1900 most were made for collectors  and for France this is particularly reality for stamps before 1914. 

I am not sure whether you are insinuating this is the case for all countries or just for Monaco and France.

That remark might as well state most stamps made after AD 377, as the number of stamps printed has increased since the 1960s. In the UK, this argument about issues being purely philatelic has been made since the Penny Black was replaced by the Penny Red and have been eternal whinges by collectors who want a complete collection but do not want to pay for stamps. It has been a rubbish argument for most of the twentieth century. 

Where collectors see a watermark, phosphor, perforation, or other technical change as a new stamp, the postal authorities do not. The changes result from operational requirements, technical advances, cost considerations, contractual changes, forgery, etc. In most cases, the postal authorities did not even have a hand in these changes. Instead of whingeing about 'all the philatelic issues' these collectors should just have limited themselves to collecting the first issue they encountered.
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