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I have alot of the stamps that you had to cut yourself,they look fake to me,are they worth more and if so why?
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The oldest stamps are all imperforate, so you had to cut them from the sheet with scissors. Somewhere in the 1850s or 1860s perforation was invented, making it much easier to separate one stamp from a sheet. Sometimes printers had no time or means to make perforated sheets, so imperforated sheets were put on the market. This has happened a few times in the Netherlands when there was a printers' strike. Later imperforate stamps were put on the market deliberately to create varieties for collectors. Often these were limited runs, so they would be worth more.
But most important, check the catalogue to find out if these stamps are genuine. If they exist in perforated and not perforated version, it should be listed. |
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Jan-Simon is right on the money here.
It will usually say underneath the listing in Scott if imperfs exist of a particular issue, if it is normally a perforated stamp. Sometimes it will say that the imperf is worth more. |
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Almost all Austria except for the last one on line two, which is Spain.
The ones that bear checking into are the last three on the top line. |
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The Violet Mercury Heads are newspapers stamps issued for use in both postal systems of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There are 3 types of the stamp types I & II, listed P9 & P9a, 1867-73, however, type III and a gray violet type I P9B & p9c were issued for Austrian Territory postal system within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This image does not allow me to tell the difference. The next one to the right brown is a Newspaper Tax stamp issued in 1858-59, PR3 &PR3a by the Austro-Hungarian Empire or PR6 issued by the Austrian postal system within the Empire. The blue one on the far right is Austro-Hungarian empire Scott's 5. After WW1, Austro-Hungarian Empire was broken up into many new nations and Austria became know as German Austria between 1918-22, all the stamps on line 3 plus other like stamp, were regular issues of German Austria Scott's 202/5/10/13/16. Those on line 2 on the 2 with the diangle overprint, last stamp on the right of line 4 and 1st to the left on line 5, were newspaper stamps of German Austria 1919-22, Scott's P24/26/29/32/34/41/43. ON line 4, middle 3 stamps are newspaper stamps on 1916 the reddish one is not listed in Scott. The remainder of line 5 are newspaper stamps used between 1899-1905. The Mercury Heads on line 6 are newspaper stamps P15/16/18 issued in 1908. All these afore mentioned newspaper stamps were used by the Austrian postal system with the Empire. Now the 2nd from the right on line one is from the Kingdom of Spain, Scott 174, 1872. The last stamp to the right is the Kingdom of Spain, Scott 314, 1920.
Good Collecting! Mike
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