OK, word of warning, catalogue value(CV) from a catalogue (unless are very old) only apply if the stamp is a certain quality (clean, fresh, light cancel, well-centered, no damage)....any faults can decrease value immensely...and if selling stamps, stamps usually only sell for a fraction of CV...
Picture 1: France P7, a newspaper stamp, looks mint hinged, so CV of $0.30, mint and used have same CV
2: France B12, a semipostal stamp, looks mint hinged, so CV of $0.50
3: French Morocco J17, postage due stamp, looks mint hinged, so CV of $0.80
4 Russia 62 or 81, probably 81, looks mint, I'll assume is hinged:
62 is brown violet and blue, and has vertical ribs if held up to the light CV$20, 81 is red brown and deep blue, no ribs, is wove paper, CV$0.25, is a dull violet and blue variety CV$1.40
It's not really an error, but probably was just badly printed (too little ink or bad impression or something), probably pretty common....
5 Great Britain 129, CV$22.50, but centering is not great so lesser CV...catalogue indicates badly centered and heavily cancelled Great Britain stamps can sell for 10-20% of CV..so $2.50-$5?..there are other color varieties of equal or greater CV, but it's sometimes hard to ID them...
6 Great Britain Fiscal/revenue, more specialized and not in regular catalogues, so ID and value less easy to find.. |
Posted 12/04/2020 11:55 am
