Star Color Misprint, Do I Have A Valuable Stamp ? Scotts#832 1936 $1 Woodrow Wilson See Pic

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It is not a misprint, but a used stamp that has had environmental issues.


Peter

No.

purple ink fading to a bright red ?

Yes and still no value for this damaged stamp.

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Don

Do changelings have any value or premium to them?

Some collectors may pay a couple of bucks for a changeling as a novelty or as a reference item. They should not command a large premium because since they are created from external environmental factors, infinitely more of them can be produced using similar methods.

The red star is likely manufactured using chemical solvents directly applied to the star, since the surrounding identically colored areas are not affected.

If they did, you'd likely have a hard time finding any stamps that hadn't been manipulated in some way, right? I can't think of anything a collector could physically or chemically do to a stamp that would improve its value.

Reverse oxidation of orange stamps which have browned.

Scrubbing cancellation marks? Not advocating it, but it is something people CAN do that will (unethically) increase the value. Although now that I think of it, cleaning a dirty stamp. (which is more of a grey area)

Agree 100% and other colors can likewise be positively "renewed" using careful application of hydrogen peroxide.

In my opinion hydrogen peroxide treatment is a restoration**. For whatever reason(s), many in our hobby accept peroxide restoration without feeling the need to document or declare it when they sell stamps. Hydrogen peroxide is a bleach and I am unsure how a hydrogen peroxide dip differs from a bleach dip other than bleach being faster acting. I am also unsure why postal history folks seem stricter about the issue of restoration since selling a restored cover is less acceptable than selling a peroxide restored orange stamp. <shrugs>
Don

**Restoration vs Conservation
Restoration attempts to return a stamp back to its original condition. By contrast, conservation attempts to preserve a stamp in its current condition

I am a no guy down the line.

Conservation of a stamp I can understand is acceptable. If a stamp is conserved how dose that affects it value over a normal stamp not conserved?

If a stamp is restored how dose this affects it's value? Is this an acceptable practice?

If a stamp is conserved or restored and you know it is. Is it unethical not to tell the prospective buyer, or it is just accepted it is ok and dose not effect the value?

Then to what I am to understand a changeling stamp is environmentally damaged. It will have no premium value (unless used for reference and then not much).

Don, I can clearly see the distinction you made. Now if I can only remember the actual terms moving forward!

Regumming, based on this schema, would be neither "restoration" nor "conservation." What term would apply for regumming.

BTW - it is possible to treat mint stamps with peroxide if one knows what they are doing.