Help Me Identify Collection Worth Please.

At least half of these never should have been submitted for certs. Only a very few merit certs on value or condition.

The pieces of card are covering up the cert numbers, dates, and other identifying information. Not sure why anyone would do that, really.

Think of the cert money that could have been spent on good stamps.

Didn't he say that some of the stamps came certified?

Rob - They were all just certified, and the PF certs are in the PF database.

rogdcam - sorry. I never saw a real certificate and never will, so I didn't know how to look at it.

PSE has new certs now, thicker paper with updated address and some additional wording, the paper has a sheen to it also. I had a few stamps graded that came back about a month ago with the new format.

The PSE certs posted here look like the old format. New format example below.

You have shown some interesting material but it would serve your own financial interests to assess each individual stamp carefully yourself before sending them in reflexively to get certificates. As others have noted the condition and centering of many make them not worth the investment in certification.

I would also encourage a bit more personal elbow grease or intellectual effort to identify your stamps yourself before resorting to the certification process and expense. Here your block of 4 Harding submitted as 613 and found to be rather defective 610s is a case in point (PF cert 588661). You were hoping to hit the jackpot, yes?

But that was good money burned right there on a cert which loss could have been easily avoided with just a few minutes calm, skeptical consideration of the object in hand with the aid of inexpensive tools and readily accessible literature or guides such as stampsmarter.

Maybe you can afford the financial loss, but there is real pleasure in figuring out stamp identification on your own. After that pleasure, if you really are convinced on the evidence that you have found an unusual stamp…. Then get it certified. Otherwise, I suspect you are losing us.