These stamps have multiple faults and no self-respecting stamp collector would want them as permanent parts of their collection. BUT they make great space-fillers! At least until you can find that perfect copy to replace them with.
Space-filler - a stamp not perhaps of the highest quality, but sound and presentable enough to warrant inclusion in a collection.
Space-Filler: A stamp in poor condition used to fill a space in an album until a better copy can be found.
Special Delivery: A service providing expedited delivery of mail. Also called express.
Such damaged stamps are known as space-fillers. The collector remains aware of the faulty stamps in his albums and watches for better ones to replace them.
It is badly torn and not worth even being a "space-filler". If you don't like cancellations, you might like #5. But it is a bit low in its centring, with a larger space at the top, between the stamp and the perforations.
Without acceptable condition the value of your stamps becomes less until in the poorest condition your stamp's condition hits bottom where it is known as a space-filler, the pariah of stamps, ...
Space-filler - Damaged, heavily cancelled or otherwise poor copy of a difficult stamp that fills a gap until a better one comes along.
Specimen - (i) A single copy of a postage stamp or other philatelic item.
 See also: Used, Filler, Stamp, Catalog, Condition
  
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