Orange 10 Cent Monroe Precancel

Hi everyone! I received these stamps from my father who was a collector. Could anyone help me with if these are Scott 562c? I do not have a guage and do not really know much about stamps or how to measure perfs. Any feedback would be great!

http://goscf.com/t/54498
A link that may be useful. The centering is bad. I am sure that it would help if you lay it on a perforation gauge and take a picture. But, It is a NY overprint and that may be all these folks need. I would like to know what these are worth so I think I will recheck my free Mystic catalog of USA stamps.

BrittVan89, welcome to the forum. One of the basic tools you need to find certain ( scarce ) stamps is a perforation gauge.
You can print one from here: http://www.stampsmarter.com/learnin...erfGauge.htm .

Peter

Thank you for responding! These are stuck on a piece of old brown paper.. I cropped that out to fit it for the image on here. So I don't know how I would even use a gauge? And does having the NY overprint mean it couldn't be that? Sorry for sounding so clueless, I literally know nothing about stamps.. They are very intriguing to me but SO complicated to read into.

BrittVan89
You need one of these: http://www.slingshotvenus.com/stamp...tyPerf5.html

This precision gauge is clear, so it can by placed against an item on piece and still align the perf.
There are smaller versions too, metal ones, that have a cut-out over the perfs, instead of a printed piece of paper. Those you can align as well, while seeing the perf through the view window.
That said, the New York N.Y. precancel is a give-away... the precancels that this exist on are from Brooklyn N.Y. (also known Osage Iowa, Cleveland Ohio, Palmyra N.Y., Minneapolis Minn., Nashville Tenn) but none from NY, NY.

Thank you for your reply. I wish I knew as much as you all! I still think it's a neat piece, like I said I find stamps to be very interesting regardless of their value. I have a few hundred mostly all used with neat cancels on them but my favorite one is a 3 Cent red Washington (imperf) with the 6-point star of david fancy cancel on it.