Post Your Worst Stamp Here.

gladiators001 - correct....worth checking out???
not shabby for your worst stamp???

I just saw this one from Tuva (Tannu Tuva) posted by member Chadn a while back:

I real nice piece!

Can anyone on the forum tell me anything about this ugly stamp?

The stamp is from Saudi Arabia.

I suppose it's OK as a single, but it kind of suffers as a strip of 3 on condition grounds. [but makes for a good story; the other two were probably peeled off by the post office or by the the customer when it was realized the local stamps couldn't be used to pay postage]

Similar problem with this cover from Sovenia. The front looks pretty good, but the back where the stamps are...



...only two of the original seven stamps that were on there have survived intact.

Some of those stamps are really ugly =)

Here's one I frequently show off at my table at my stamp club's bourse. It is Scott B68 (Mi Block 3) from 1935. This sheet, along with Germany's "Hindenburg" stamps (Scott C57-58) had sulfuric acid in the gum. The end result is what you see here - the sheet is completely disintegrating over time. Depending on where you live (read: dry vs humid climate), these stamps will fair better or worse. The ideal stamps have had the gum soaked off years ago - but you will pay a premium for them.

Brian

Hi All

Here is my worst of the worst stamp I have. As you can see it's a block of R59A. Got this at a western stamp show right at the close of the show, a dealer just almost gave it to me for $2.00. That's right two dollars. Don't know if it was worth the two dollars or not, every stamp has some sort of damage. Every stamp in the block has pin hole(s). Funny thing is no thins!





Dave

This is pretty much a pig... Shame as it's a Type 1 (62B)

billw2

Bad, but not as bad as my oink-oink block.

Dave

Altmhough this 256 is dirty and beat up it is my favorite US classic:

This 256 is a beauty

Just had to post this poor ugly pair cut off a postal card.