Plate #'s & Their Values

I'm sort of new to stamps.............. brand new to plates

I just got a binder loaded up with strips of 4 or 5 each.. (are these "coils"?), all organized by the little plate numbers. Whole pages of the same design.. page after page.

Looks like #1908 Fire Pumper has a couple of rare plate #'s, and I have some. Fun. I want to look up the others but I can't find a catalog anywhere that breaks them all down. Is there a website out there that'll help me? Mostly in the #1800-2200 range

Lynel, welcome to the forum. The Plate Number Coil Collectors Club is what you are looking for. Website http://pnc3.org . They just issued a brand new Values List for all of the PNC's issued. I recommend you contact them and order the Values List.


Peter

or you can just look in the Scott Specialized Catalogue

eyeonwall, I recently got an envelope filled with Fire Pumper 1908 20c coil pl#s in one of my postage lots, and according to the Scott Catalogue, I can retire off them!

Any experts here willing to burst my bubble?

Please do not turn in your papers yet! Scott catalog is somewhat overvalued and the above strips are not centered very well. Also, most collectors of these now collect strips of 5 ( PS5 ) rather then strips of two, three or four.


Peter

Peter4522, funny thing is, some of them seem to be centered badly enough to veer into EFO territory. The design actually gets cut off...

Yes, you are correct. The Cottrells, especially the first ones of the Transportation Coils were very wide and just a little bit of mis-perforation gives these results. You might try to sell some, but I am not sure they'll bring a lot.


Peter

There is a huge drop off in value going from strips of 5 to shorter strip and the centering on most of them is very poor but not bad enough to command a misperf premium, Sorry to burst your bubble.