Can Someone Explain This?

description on a stamp ad..

Lightly hinged, professionally regummed. Reperfed at bottom. Appears OG.



really? if it was professionally regummed, how can it be OG?

It's not OG. Just "appears OG". I think that is his way of saying it was a decent job of re-gumming.

I would not buy it by the description.
Give the seller credit he could have lied.

no, I wasn't going to buy it.
I looked at a bunch of this guys stamps for sale..
all had me concerned...

one had a "expert" certificate saying the stamp was Unused but had a fake cancel...

Other from this seller had funky descriptions, misleading, and downright wrong... selling a stamp as unused when it had been used...

selling some with certs that said it was perfect except it was reperfed...

just to hinky.. and his prices were nuts..

Even if the regumming was done by a professional?

Looks like a few buyers don't mind picking up a regummed and reperfed stamp.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dr-Bob-US-Scott...380258559352

This looks like the kind of item that could easily get passed around a few times, then show up at described as MNH...

hahaha.. you found the seller I was talking about... look at his/her/its other auctions... compare descriptions with pictures..
just look at his storefront and go to his "better stamps" section..

I'm just suspicious of anyone description with the words... 'appears', 'looks' etc..
to me it's a way to say "I didn't know" if you are going to sell a expensive or rare stamp.. be certain of what you are selling and be exact.

Looks like most of his auctions (including the one cut & pasted in to this thread, start at $0.01, so the nutty prices are market driven...




No secrets in the Google age!

Happy stamping...

"Dr. Bob" Friedman has been a dealer for many years. I have dealt with Him on several occasions. I have always found him to be honest and stand by his word. by Putting that the stamp was perforated and re gummed by a professional implies that it has been restored. In my book that is the same as repaired. In other words it does NOT qualify as MNH. It is Defective and REPAIRED! A space filler at best.

Also, that would be a very lousy copy regardless! Poor color, Poor centering(even before the reperf., And Bob missed the small tear on the left side(5th perf up).

True enough revstampman. I have bought from Dr Bob myself. Good eyes in spotting the tear.

When you've gone through as many stamps/collections as he has, you're bound to miss a defect or two. Nobody's perfect.

I came across a seller with a "Scott 449" for sale. It was described as fake with a certificate stating that it was a fake. The seller still wanted big bucks for it.

Scott 449 is a fairly scarce coil that has to have a certificate. It will cost in the hundreds.

I, too, have bought a couple of stamps from Dr. Bob. Found the material to be as described and the price was ok---not great, but ok.

i thought I had posted but it didn't make it I guess.

I wouldn't have mentioned the person and did not want to until someone else found him..
I don't want to disparage the person, I was just giving my thoughts on some descriptions of stamps that I thought sounded messed up or, to me, misleading..

That's all.