Advice On Older Stamps Please

Hello as most of you know im selling the stamps I have no interest in on ebay so I can purchase the ones I do want.I have a hard time with the older stamps and looking them up in scotts so if someone could please help me out on these im basically wondering what I should start bids out with these and advice would be great thanks

Tina-

Sorry to say that this group of stamps isn't capable of being quickly categorized.

The first scan is largely officials. In some cases, used is worth more than unused; in other cases, it is the opposite (e.g., for the 5-mark brown on yellow, used is worth more; for the 2-mark dark blue, unused is worth more, with a big premium for never hinged).

For the Germania stamps (the woman with the armored Wonderbra), once you've done the easy separation of dividing the ones with Reichspost at the bottom from the ones with Deutsches Reich at the bottom, then you have to divide the Reichspost into a couple varieties and the Deutsches Reich into several varieties. (The Reichspost stamps are older, and I didn't notice any in your scans.) This pretty much necessitates a trip to the library, where you can photocopy the couple of pages from Scott's that deal with these issues. Some of yours will be easier to sort because of the denominations and colors (e.g., the larger denominations are not found in the earlier series).

To complicate things, your officials are from the era where CTOs are plentiful, and they don't command the premium that postally-used stamps enjoy.

When all is said and done, these may not sell for much, but that doesn't make them uninteresting.

Collin

Sounds like my honeymoon....