Do You See A Grill?

yes that is a small tear with a smaller crack..

I will let people know what APS says.
But the more people on here that look at it, the more the opinion is that it has no grill. The more it makes me happy.
It is not a very good example of a 125. I think it would be considered (on it's face) to be VG/F condition.
But the damage on the backside brings it's value down from the VG/F.
VG has a CV of 16,000, Fine is at 20,000. I figure this may be worth (net sale to me) around 4-5 grand. maybe less.

But, I suspect, worth the purchase price? :o)

yeah, def. worth the purchase price, I was just going to throw it away then saw a 125 on bidwants (mint) version..
So I decided to take a look...

Here's hoping.

SV, if I send you $20. can you get me one, please?

Stampgal, because you asked. If I had another one, I would give it to you.

Spoken like a man whose checked very carefully between all the pages and down the back of the desk...

actually I haven't... and I threw the rest of the US pages away this morning. Kept a 1/2 dozen or so to play with and experiment on.

I am disappointed, because it had the whole 1894 1895 Washington Franklin series.. all the colors and variations.. only completely destroyed

Still, a fantastic find, all the same ! Well done!

thank you. only fantastic if it proves to be a 125.. otherwise I wasted $30.00

Thats a shame to have to throw them away. Were they worse then the WW ones?

yes, much worse... these were the worst ones in the albums..
some serious humidity got to the first part of the album.

Some of the Russia I got were stuck down pretty good. I ended up just soaking them and having no gum. It looked like a couple of the stamps the previous owner did not even hinge. The gum was just licked to put the stamp in place lol.

Another thought... there are a handful of 3c 69s known without grills, scott #114a. If memory serves they are even scarcer than the reissues.

Thought I would bump this back up. Stamp Virgin I just started reading the thread and was curious to know if you had heard back from APS. If you did what was the end result?

it had a grill...

expensive cert.. :)