Just Picked These Up This Past Week

Tell me what you think !

Great start ! Keep picking up what you like posting any questions you might have about them.

Top stamp quite off center. Second stamp faulty as the perforations are cut off.

Fun stamps to collect as a hobby. Keep showing and asking. We love scans/pictures of stamps. Enjoy!

Redwoodrandy (Thats excatly what the listing said!!)
anyway picked up these also

12 cent looks like has a grill upper right Washington head?? E or F???
30 cent banknote always challenge to identify Scott number although some on this forum good at telling paper type without holding up to light or feeling it. Full black, black, gray always tough for me.

Curious what the Scott numbers are?

rgstamp This is what they are

Top One (SCOTT #156 US STAMP FRANKLIN 1 CENT USED) Paid 46cents for this one
Middle One (US Stamp 306 MH) Paid 8.70 for this one
Bottom One (US Stamp 308 MH) 6.45 for this one

Odocon, I was referring to the first two stamps you posted, not the three from today's post!!

rgstamp here ya go the very top two

Scott #97, 12c Washington Used, Paid 22.50
Scott #165 Used with Faults - Paid 8.00

Thanks... well done

US Stamp 298 MNG Paid $4.80
Egrade Say SF0 ???????

Mint No Gum? Looks like it might have been used??? Let Me know Your Thoughts

Not MNG (mint no gum), it is a used stamp.
Don

Thats what I thought

Just won this one for 10.50
US Stamps Collection Scott#298 8c Unused NG

A word of friendly advice...
If you are going to buy early US singles I would recommend avoiding random ebay sellers. Spend as much time seeking out and doing discovery on the sellers as you do on the stamps themselves. Until you get more experience, work with known quality sellers like Clark Frazier or Ken Srail. Ask the folks on this forum who they deal with...

But looking for the 'best' ebay deals on early US singles without a lot of experience is a sure way to get burned and/or build a low quality collection with little value.
Don

Don is giving you some excellent advice. For example, on the #298, the guide line showing on some of the left side perfs and especially the fact that it is NG take the value way down. I am speaking from painful experience; for U.S. classics, selectively buy the best you can afford so you are not continually upgrading. As a wise person once told me, "slow down, you don't have to get all of them at once".

There are also a couple of short perfs that take down the value. You are buying low quality low value stamps, and no, just because you get a stamp graded it does not at all necessarily enhance the value.