Ebay Lot I Pruchased Recently.

paid $25.00 for it. what you all think

If they take five hours to identify and mount, you've paid U$D 5 per hour for your entertainment.

About the same price as dinner & a movie.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Is that a $3 Columbian in the packet? If it is, I think you got a deal.

Don

Agree with don...3$ Columbian. Nice find!! For 25 bucks!! Show us a better pic of that stamp.

What a great deal with that Columbian!

I'm thinking a big tear on the right side. I hope not. Nice pickup.

My first reaction was that $25 was a ripoff, until I saw the $3 Columbian, as others have said. It's hard to tell if it's used or mint, and it's almost certainly not in very fine and/or sound condition, but cat value is $1500 mint ($750 if no gum) and $825 used. Even if there are some small-ish faults, $25 is a good deal. I don't even collect US, but I'd probably buy it for that!

updated pic.

It looks like a mint copy with gum on it. However, the perforations in different rows across from each other correspond with each other which is not usual for an old rotary wheel line perforated stamp. Another way of looking at this is that there are four identical perfect matching perforated corners here when usually there isn't for these.

No easily visible faults and reasonably well centered (although probably not truly VF); this is probably a stamp that would retail in the hundreds of dollars normally. You probably got this for 10% or less of what one would reasonably expect to pay, again assuming no major faults and assuming it's not re-perforated or regummed, etc.

The rest of the stamps in the lot, by the way, might be worth a couple of bucks altogether, assuming you could find a collector who actually needed them for his collection

Suggest an authentication??? It looks real to me. Seller was from Hungary

I'd have to see a better scan to have an opinion.

OK, no tear, reasonable overall. My guess is that the seller initially thought 3 cents, not 3 dollars. Great find!

Bizarre lot.It's the only 19th century stamp, all the rest appear extremely common with only one stamp that catalogs over $1. Assuming that the $3 has not been either cleaned or regummed or both, it is certainly worth several hundred dollars.

Agreed with KGB - post a closer, clearer picture or, ideally, a scan. With a good scan, people here can give you a good idea if it's been reperfed, regummed, or otherwise altered. Assuming it's not a blatant forgery and appears to be fault free, a certificate would enhance its resale value somewhat.

That being said, if you just plan on keeping the stamp in your own collection and you're reasonably confident it's the real thing, there wouldn't be any real need to get a cert. If you want to sell it, you'll get more for it with a cert, but I can't speak to how much more as I'm personally not that familiar with the market for certified US stamps.

It does appear to be hinged which is usually an indicator that it hasn't been regummed. If someone is going to go through the trouble of regumming, they're probably going to try and pass it off as NH. That, and they wouldn't have put it in a packet of common stamps and sold it for a fraction of its value.

Maybe the Hungarian seller knew little to nothing about US stamps, but that begs the question of how they ended up with a $3 Columbian. And of course, without the Columbian in there, any knowledgeable US collector would have chortled at the $25 asking price and moved along, so who knows. It is puzzling, but nice find all the same.

Hope its a great buy but I do agree with revcollector, I am concerned about the lot being salted.
Don