Here's Your Chance To Get Ripped Off !!

Get your bids in early folks !!

Or someone else could win this piece........

http://cgi.ebay.com/From-an-old-col...ws_W0QQitemZ190307390454QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c4f3453f6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66:4%7C65:1%7C39:1%7C240:1318%7C301:0%7C293:2%7C294:200


........of scrap paper.

Hard to believe that four people have already bid. --KS

Interesting... very interesting.... P.T. Barnum was quite correct in his cynical descriptions of his target audiences....

Yes Craig, and the birth rate is UP !

You can sell just about anything on ebay with the population base out there..if the idjit even thought it was real !

Notice the line, "in a very old album". I wonder if the bidders are even stamp collectors? I am so new to this hobby that I have the new car smell still, and even I know better than to buy something like this!

I think it sold for $157 on ebay.

The recent forged used C3a's that have turned up in the past year have one thing in common -- Denver postmark.

For the record, there is only ONE known used example of the C3a.

Here's the story of how it came about.

William Robey was the original finder of the inverted Jenny sheet. He sold it to Eugene Klein, who in turn sold it to Edward Green. Green broke up the sheet to sell in blocks and singles. When he went out of town, his wife Mabel sent an airmail letter to Green and used one of the stamps laying around on his desk (apparently we are not the only collectors who leave stamps all over the desk). Guess which stamp Mabel used! Fortunately Green was observant and saw the stamp on the envelope. He laughed it off and kept the used copy in a pendant on his watch chain.

It should have been grounds for divorce.

Kidding aside, I recall that when I was a teen ager and had stamp and coin collections, everyone in the house was aware that under no circumstances were my collections to be touched no matter how bad you wanted to mail a letter or buy a soda.

And yes, even at that tender age, the above was enforced.

I'm sure that he attached it to his watch chain to remind himself to strangle his wife when he returned home!

Actually, my wife once took a stamp off my sorting desk to use as postage. She figured that I had so many, I couldn't possibly miss one that was sitting next to a stack of apparently identical stamps. Unfortunately, she wasn't familiar with perforation gauges and it didn't occur to her that one stamp was removed from the pile for a reason...

What happened to the stamp ?
You didn't retrieve it ??
A used copy is also good, no?

She used it to pay a bill, so I pretty much discarded the thought of getting it back. Turns out I got a couple of replacements later on in a collection I purchased. Good thing I didn't scream, rant, and rave!

Or did I?

I've done my share of stupid postage uses. I was in a rush to send out a package, and tore up a high denomination plate block from my sort bin that I knew I already had. Afterwards, I had a bad feeling about not having checked the plate number in Durlands. It was one of the PBs I was missing with a moderate premium above the other plate numbers. Well, at least I still have the plate single! To this day, I believe that am still missing that plate block number/position from my collection.