Ripped Up Cover, Would You Keep Or Just Get The Stamps Off.

Parcelpostguy wrote:


That's a legitimate line of reasoning to me.


That's relative to context and the knowledge of judges, so probably not a key concern in his case unless they would suspect he's trying to sneak in one rarity to pump up his exhibit.

To me, the virtual cut-down version reinforces that the whole does not have much of a story to tell. Now, there is a puzzle there that can be investigated. And some of you are ignoring that there is no proof from a scan that the precancels belong on this fragment or not. Actually, I think there is evidence to indicate they belong. But it's still not a cover. It's two precancels stuck on a large piece.

From what I can see, I would trim it down.

Are there any postal markings on the reverse to consider?

It appears to me that the cover is low quality paper (typical for this kind of low cost advertising of this era) and the stamps are showing signs of toning.

Testing for acidification is cheap and simple, how much acidification has already taken place? If acid is present and if stamps are toned, how much would conservation cost and does this exceed the value of the piece? But more importantly, how can folks recommend keeping the stamps on the piece without knowing (or asking/mentioning) this information?
Don

The question for me is "does this piece constitute a thing of any informational or historical value?" My answer is that it does not. On-paper kilowatt is sold all of the time and nobody spends time (that I am aware of anyway) hand wringing over the envelope bits.

There are no markings on the back

-hy-brasil


I would be inclined to agree but another person got it, wrote it up well, with some research, and was complimented by the judges for inclusion of the item in their rate study. Not seeing the full picture is at times an issue for a collector.