Post Your Worst Stamp Here.

Wonderful engine turning (double lathe-work) on those.
Glad I have seen them from a distance.

This little fellow was all I could afford at the time.
Bavaria 9kr close cut a bit, the horses mowing the hay ran wild when they ran over the hornet nest. I like it.



The closed millwheel cancel makes up for it though.

revenuecollector, I love your RB8 description. The stamp catalogs $850 (it's green paper, right?) -- can you share what it sold for?

I don't honestly remember. It was less than 10% of Scott. If memory serves, the buyer wanted to try their hand at restoration.

@littleriverphil - On that O11 is that dot on the acanthus<? double as a rotographers mark? also seems there is other anomolies on that stamp too! Neat. I believe that might be a foreign entry and maybe a little over-inking too?

Parttime,
I had a US #1 just as bad as that one, maybe even worse. I had a friend that really wanted it. He offered $35.00 for it. I would not take his money, but I did accept a trade.
Pat

I very much agree. My US#1, regardless of the condition, represents my Grandma in my stamp collecting world, and will never leave my collection. Without her mother's efforts and her interests in the early 1920's to 1940's, I wouldn't have too much to show. Now I just have to get US#2 (in ANY condition) to keep Ben company. Here's to happy hunting.

Partime My Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather also helped me so-to-speak with my collection. I managed to recover some of their stamp collection and started filling in blanks and relocated them from that beat up album to my Light house Vario pages. (It had to be done). I don't have a #1 or #2 but I share your enthusiasm for them! They are sort of my "holy grail" stamps. *sigh* someday soon I hope to snag them.

ILS, As you point out, the ink does seem a bit soupy, as do the majority of O11's. The dot you refer to ( just to the left of the straight line across the acanthus ) therefore looks larger than it should be. I think that the three dots above and to the left of the top left corner were part of the layout grid, the line I refered to is part of the 6 Cent Agriculture's vignette oval. Identified by the green arrows in this composite of the top right sections of the Foreign Entry, a normal O11 and a 6 Cent Agriculture O4.





The original scan of this O11s Pos 40 was done on another scanner at 2400 dpi, just tried a 1200 dpi scan of the stamp and it does not show the detail the posted scan does ( also shows a differnt color, more pink than carmine )like the center section of the pic I just posted. Somewhere, I have a 8.5 X 11" page that I printed from the original scan, with arrows pointing out at least 25 points different than a normal O11. This stamp is very busy! And since I've got the opptunity to tell the story of how I aquired it, I will.

As I was beginning to delve into Officials and their Special Printings, and was still just buying thruogh a monthly price list out of Flordia ( can't remember the man's name ), one month the list encluded an O11s, and at the time I'm pretty sure that I didn't have a Special Printing, since the guy was only asking $2.50 for it, I ordered it. About a year later, I got a copy of W.V. Combs U.S. Departmental Specimen Stamps and as I was reading the paragraph about the 2 Cent Executive Position 40 Foreign Entry, I thought to my self, "I've seen that" and when I checked I discovered that I had indeed seen that and own a copy even with its huge thin.

Here you go Partime! Here is a #2 but it's up in an hour so you'd better hurry!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Scott-2-...em51c6d312ce

littleriverphil Thank you! Those are neat and I like how you have them displayed and the accompanying information! Well done. Thank you for your reply. -Jeff

You're welcome. And how else would I have found the chance to brag on the fact that I got that stamp for what I paid for it!

The postal service made the cancelling in such a Professional way that there are no chances to use it again !




You would like to buy it ??
Too late ! it passed 10 min. ago on ebay !

This was in the first album I ever found. Had myself convinced it must be a 205c...Keeps me searching.

WOW guys...Proud of you...
You guys have posted some pretty can I say some pretty "UGLY" stamps..Their condition I mean...

The only "redeeming" thing to say about this one is that it is a fake to begin with, so nothing lost, nothing gained. Worthless though it may be, I just can't bring myself to trash it!