1873 U.s State Dpt 10 Dollar Stamp

Hi!
Found this in my great-great grandpa's stamp collection album. I was wondering if It's worth keeping or selling. Does any of you have a guesstimate for value? Also, is ebay the best place for trying to sell it? Thanks!

MerryEri, welcome to the forum. The forum is often pretty quite on weekends. I say that so you'll give folks some time to reply.

I'm a novice, but my Scott catalogue shows your stamp is a valuable issue. It is identified as Scott O70. That is the letter O 70.
https://siegelauctions.com/lot_grd....lledfrom=lkp Check out the link.

Your stamp does seem to have some condition issues, so actual value will be much less than catalogue. Others here will advise you better than I can.

P.S. Would love to see what German stamps are in your album.

If genuine this stamp would be of considerable value. However, the scrapes along the word STATE are suspicious. It's possible that an overprint such as "falsch" was scraped away.

Fake as Dudley mentions (overprint scrapped away to make it look real)

Wow!
What was the overprint for?

Here is what they look like before the scraping to remove the original facsimile overprint.

It's worth something to someone.If you don't want it see what it brings on ebay.

If you do sell it, please make sure it is listed clearly marked as a modified fake. Unmodified fake O70 sell for around $1 like this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Facsimile-o...AOSwM4xXbIKU
Being scrapped does not add to the value.
Don

It seems like the black lines left after the scratch off and where the scratch off is doesn't match fascimliy. Not sure if this matters as much, but seems more like a real stamp that someone tried to scratch off a cancel. Wouldn't there be more scratched off above the A to get rid of the word facility?

Thanks for all your comments! I've been looking at the stamp closely and I also think that the "worn out" areas aren't wide enough to cover the supposed "facsimile". But then again, I'm definitely a novice... If it's indeed a real one but worn out, is it more valuable than a facsimile?

"T" to "T" scratched off facsimile. Wrong color, wrong perfs and terrible detail. Compare the cheek pattern and ear pattern and herringbone patterns. Look at the darker green area under STATE and where it ends at the white oval. Total lack of detail around the U.S of A. Lack of detail of "of" which should be very clear especially on left side.

Still altered. But if it was real with a cancel scraped out or just maybe stuck between stamps and ripped apart. I woul say if not a facsimile, would be worth more than $1 as a filler stamp, but not much more than 5-10% Scott.

Edit: although the t-t placement is suspect, do you think there is enough scraped off above the A to get rid of all traces of the letters?

Check for watermark?

Ah, didn't see randys edits. I'll defer to the experts.

As redwoodrandy posted; stamp is wrong on several levels. Additionally, it is normal for these older albums to contain 'albums weeds'. Fakes/facsimiles and altered stamps became common by the late 1800s.
Don