Most Valuable Stamp This Week?

Anyone have a idea what stamp this week is worth alot, thats not already on the charts.

On the charts? Hmmm. You seem to be thinking of something like a philatelic top 40.

Care to explain for those of us who have never seen such a thing?

From some marketing company perhaps?

Well, there are a lot of stamps that are valuable, but if you're looking for "sleepers" that are undervalued and might increase in price, you probably won't get many replies. There probably aren't any stamps that are worth just a few dollars today that are going to be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars in a few years. Stamps that are cheap today are likely always going to be cheap. Stamps that are already expensive will likely stay expensive. Changes in values are usually incremental except in the case of true rarities that are only seen infrequently at auctions. There are undoubtedly stamps that will increase in real-world value faster than inflation, but trying to figure out which ones is little more than a guessing game. The vast, vast majority of stamps make horrible investments and this fact will likely never change.

I'm going with the rare puce variety of the famous 40 Schmeckel definitive from Lower Punjabistan.

What, you don't collect Punjabistan BoB?

I don't know, I think the 50 Schmeckel value from that same set is a better long term bet. Fewer printed, plus many were used as postage and lost. Sure, sure, the 40Smeck has those nice bright yellow, pink and green colors that everyone likes, but it seems like everyone already has one. You see sellers on ebay dropping their prices on them all the time. Sooner or later people will wake up to the 50Smeck and prices will take off!

Hilarity ensues.

The set issued by the Peoples Democratic Republic of the Greadish Empire commemorating Stamcommunity.org is extremely valuable. There are fewer copies than of the British Guiana 1c Magenta.

Did you half to say that, Greaden?


Artful Hinger, which one of those wonders has the red, yellow and blue balloons printed on?
I think that's the one worth the most bread.

That's pretty rare indeed...

Ah yes, the elusive 3 Gruber value. All of the Gruber values from 1G up to 10G are scarce, but the 3G particularly so, since it was only in use for about six weeks during the Punjabistan Civil War. No one had any money to save unused ones and the nation was in such disarray that hardly any got used on mail, either. There is speculation that all postal uses are in fact later creations, but most experts agree, for now at least, that there are legitimate postal usages during the time they were valid for postage, mostly from Barkmeow province.

For all the hilarity, it should be remembered that until about 1923 the $5 Columbian was available for UNDER face. So readily available stamps have become valuable later. However I think it extremely unlikely that a stamp that is currently readily available will become seriously valuable.

ok

If you spent time learning to really be annoying you might even get it up to a quarter. :-)

So I guess there isn't any value to stamps. But there is history I agree. I was thinking the value would rotate according to demand. Unless buyers are just stuck on a few different types of stamps. I'm really trying to understand how stamps value go up and down. And so I do respect the history and the knowledge behind it. And I really like the idea of finding that special high cost one hidden in back of the collection. It would be exciting to find it. But I don't know which one it might be. That is why I spoke up and not hide behind The small typograhy of fonts. It would be a great idea if it would rotate more often, rather than a few 100 years.

Thank You Artfull.