St. Vincent One Half Penny Stamp?

Hello

Please identify this stamp giving me an estimated resale value, year, condition and rarity.

This is my first post to the stamp forum.

It's great to be here.

Thanks

What a lovely scan of a lovely stamp!

Welcome mdpmedia from me, too.

You'll have to do some work on this stamp. It exists with perforations in two gauges: perf 12, from 1883-4 (SG 42) and perf 14, from 1885-93 (SG 47).

If it is SG 42, it has a catalogue value of £95. This stamp also exists with watermark reversed; it is not priced unused, but used it is listed at £160.

If it is SG 47, it has a catalogue value of £1. This stamp also exists with watermark reversed (£15) and watermark inverted (£42).

The value of your stamp will depend very largely on the state of the gum on the other side. Can you provide a similar scan of the other side, and tell us which perforation gauge it is, please?

If anyone can give me the size of the printed picture portion,
I can tell you the perf.

Yes, Rod the mathematician! Who need perforation gauges.

Well, you folks are dealing with a real newbie here when dealing with any verbiage relating to stamp collecting.

I found this stamp within a 3" thick stamp album that only contained only about 30 stamps (ranging in age from 1840 - 1900).

Since the album did not have many stamps no one at the auction wanted this book so the winning bid (mine) was only $ 1 for the entire album.

If this stamp turns out to be worth something significant, I would like to use it as my avatar since this is my very first stamp forum entry.

Even if it is not worth very much I will still use it as my avatar since I agree with smauggie that it is a neat looking very old stamp.

In summary I will scan the reverse as soon as I can but in the meantime would definitely appreciate the following info. from the SC (stamp community):

1) a URL describing in detail how to determine the perf including what tools I need to acquire to accomplish this etc.

2) a URL showing how to upload and utilize this particular stamp photo to be used as my own avatar going forward

Thank you much for welcoming me,
mdpmedia

welcome aboard mdpmedia - great to have new members and fresh ideas and stamps

My guess would be 20x24mm.

mdpmedia, the simplest way to find the perforation gauge is to measure 20 millimeters along the side of the stamp, and count the number of perforations. The number of perforations in 20 mm is the gauge.

The watermark will be a crown and the letters CA. When you look at the watermark from the back of the stamp, the letters should appear reversed. If the letters appear the right way around, the watermark is reversed. An inverted watermarks is, well, inverted.

A certain Mr. Gent, my teacher in year 8
may well disagree with you BeeSee,
He wielded a mean birch as well, I can confirm.

mdpmedia, I checked my example of this stamp, and the design area is exactly 2cm high. I count 14 perforations, so yours is the perf 14 issue, Scott #41 with a mint value in 2008 of $1.70, as is mine.

Thanks to you Bee and to everyone else on the thread.

IMHO stamp collecting is an extremely interesting field but for a novice like me at times appears to be overwhelming with the amount of unexpected details that present themselves.

Since I am an avid coin collector of 30 years or so I now have to make some time for these stamps because I think am am developing the fever for them. :)

I think the meaning of the word 'inverted' needs clarification for the benefit of newbies.

I always thought it meant upside down AND reversed, but apparently, at least in philatelic terminology, it simply means upside down!

For the definition of 'inverted' watermarks, it's always best to read the introductory notes to the catalogue you're using. Of course, one should always read the notes in any case, but ...