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Magenta "For Testing Purposes Only"
Dummy ATM Sheetlet Discovered

By Terry R. Scott
P.O. Box 10406,  Napa, CA  94581

This new dummy ATM sheetlet, as well as other recently reported dummy booklets and sheetlets, will be listed in the next edition of Research Paper Number 3, Dummy Stamp Booklets.

Please send reports of any new dummy booklets you find to Earl McAfee, P.O. Box 11266, Champaign, IL  61826, who is Chairman of the Dummy Booklet Study Group.

Figure 1.  DMY SAS FTPO-3 sheetlet front and back

Figure 2.  DMY SAS FTPO-3 single stamp showing serpentine die-cut 7.8 guage perforations.



References

1.  John L. Larson, "New 'For Testing Purposes Only' Dummy ATM Sheetlet Confirmed,"  The United States Specialist, Vol. 68, No. 12 (December 1997), pp. 542-545.

2.  Maurice Wozniak, Ed., Iola, WI: Krause-Minkus Standard Catalog of U.S. Stamps, 2001 edition, pp. 570-585.

3.  Terry R. Scott, "Serpentine Die-cut 'For Testing Purposes Only' Dummy ATM Sheetlet Discovered,"  The United States Specialist, Vol. 69, No. 7 (July 1998), pp. 312-314.

4.  Earl M. McAfee, et al., Dummy Stamp Booklets, Research Paper Number 3, 3rd Edition, September 1998; available for $12 postpaid (U.S.).


 
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