Scott #5A Masquerading As #7

Sold to someone who recognized it (position 5R1E). My bid of $.01 just wasn't quite enough. Too bad about the crease.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/nystamps-US...p=true&rt=nc

Neat. One thing that I find interesting, is that, often, a stamp will be properly identified in a collection, but when that collection gets dispersed, the seller, or re-seller often, will not recognize what he has, and prior research/discovery of a rare item can and does get lost that way.

I don't really know what to do about that for off-cover stamps. For covers, I plan to do a little more writing on the back of them in the future - recording information that could easily become lost. I think that is well worthwhile, as long as its done somewhat minimally.

$2033 sold.... not a bad price for 5a stamp with multiple faults and crease.???? Probably would sell similar at big auction house, maybe a bit more. Obviously a bunch of people jumped on it and saw the incorrect listing. Advertised as a 7, the seller must have been surprised when it went to 2 grand.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/US-Scott-20-F...7Ciid%253A22

For every one going that way there are 50 going the other... lifetime APS member?

Heh, yea in addition to being a Ty V that stamp has a strange cast to it. Not unlike a possible regum or gum stain.

Hm. I have been a customer of this seller for decades, he certainly knows better. I have pointed out the error in the listing to him.

I wonder how the bidding would have gone if the seller had listed it correctly, but started it at 99c anyway.

Good eyes dudley,

I watched this stamp for a short while, thinking it was a # 7. Between the seller, the crease, and being so inexperienced, I ended my watch when the price started to take off.

I do need to learn more, so I will keep reading!

Sometimes (very rarely) I will write plate positions under the backflap of a cover but I would like to see an end to all writing on stamps and covers.

I do not like the practice of extraneous writing on philatelic material.