What's it worth?
So, I got this collection from one of my D&D players today(in addition to the shoe box he gave me a few weeks ago). He actually ended up abandoning his character because his wizard cohort was negotiating with undead. I think he will come back as a n assassin and kill the wizard.
Sorry for the D&D digression but I know one of HipStamps movers and shakers is a Harry Potter fan.
Anyway, I estimate about 150 pages like this ...approximately 4000 stamps. The only condition issue I can see is the mint hinged stamps (like Mauritania) have the OG sticking to the page. Ulfgar have me this, but how much do yuns to it's worth?
Sorry for the crappy photos. I can get better if you are interested.
Sorry for the D&D digression but I know one of HipStamps movers and shakers is a Harry Potter fan.
Anyway, I estimate about 150 pages like this ...approximately 4000 stamps. The only condition issue I can see is the mint hinged stamps (like Mauritania) have the OG sticking to the page. Ulfgar have me this, but how much do yuns to it's worth?
Sorry for the crappy photos. I can get better if you are interested.
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This overprint is probably the most valuable stamp of the page
620,000 of them printed.
Listed in Gibbons as 311 and Michels as 164.
Let me Google that for you: belgium 1920 olympic X overprint
NOTE:
That was the only search I did, and had this answer in about 20 seconds... So you can probably get answers to these questions faster by learning more about the best search terms.
This may be the most valuable stamp.
There are three Penny Reds in the British section but I cant find my perf gauge to identify them.
The image size limit seems to be 2 MB.
The one in the center is a different type (rosettes in the corner). I don't think the other two are better than the one I have.
These are worth a lot less then the penny black. There are two designs, as you mention. The ones with rosette in the corners were the earlier printing, and are worth a little more. The ones with reverse plate position at top (Like your GK, KG) are from the later printing, are are like the #65 of the use... your last one is damaged (trimmed at right and bottom so is really no value.
Your top center is perf 14 does not have lines above or below the head so it's not a 20. So it's either an 11 ($80) or a 16 ($21) depending on watermark.
The others are all pretty much no value. Scott # 33, and $2.75.
Yeah, I know Penny Red's are worth nearly as much as Penny Blacks. I'm kinda surprised the trimming on the 33 from my own collection makes it less valuable than the other two. It's much better centered than the other two, but whatever.
My ancient Scott catalogue lists a whole range of values for #33 based on the plate number it says are "contained in the scroll work at the sides of the stamp". I can't see any numbers though.
I guess I'll need to check the watermark on the center top one. My fluid has long since evaporated. Can these early British stamps tolerate lighter fluid???
Those issues tend to have really strong watermarks, you may not need fluid at all if you illuminate it right.
Sorry to break it to you but yes, your highly damaged 33 isn't worth squat.
While I am a US specialist, I also do cover the Penny Black's, Penny Red's and Two Pence Blues... It's a client demand issue.
Ironically there were about 10x more Penny Blacks then there were US #1's, but the Penny Black still commands about the same CV because more people want "the first pre-paid postage stamp ever printed".
However, with my.loupe, I was able to pick out the plate number on the one on the left as '161'. My 1979 Scott catalogue lists that as a more desirable plate number amongst #33
These are interesting. And I could probably find Kiautchou on an Ubi map (although triangular precision would be difficult)
Looks like they're worth a buck apiece, but I'll probably make a album page for them.
These stamps from Guadeloupe are nice, but they do suffer from the problem I mentioned earlier that some of the unused stamps are stuck to the paper.
S #s 54,55,57,59 96,97,J15, J25
And the philatelist who put this together evidently didint know the difference between French Guiana and French Guinea.
The anteaters (51,52,53,55,59,94) are from French Guiana in South America.
The bottom row ( (J16,134,131) are from French Guinea in Africa. and the middle one is Madagascar J9.
the Gabon stamp is 131
These Chilean Telegraph stamps have some modest value
and who knew Alexander Humboldt looked like Donald Trump...
All issued around 1901-1905 and yes around a $1 each . The pfg stamps are earlier issues 1901 and the cent stamps are issues from 1905
and im still trying to identify this one if anyone knows