Help With Early Prince Albert 10¢

Can someone assist with a Scott number and a retail value for this Prince Albert 10¢ ?

Ok im going to list all the possibilities:

Year: 1859
Colour: Black Brown
Scott #: 16
CV: $ 5,500 (Used), $ 11,500 (Mint)

Year: 1859
Colour: Red Lilac
Scott #: 17a
CV: $ 150 (Used), $ 1,100 (Mint)

Year: 1859
Colour: Violet
Scott #: 17b
CV: $ 140 (Used), $ 1,200 (Mint)

17c and 17d are concerned with imperforates and half used (torn in half and used as 5 cents so not related)

Year: 1859
Colour: Deep Red Purple
Scott #: 17e
CV: $ 1,500 (Used), $ 3,250 (Mint)

All of these gauge close to 11 3/4

Hope this helps.

Possible 16 or 17. Most likely 17.

http://www.arpinphilately.com/produ...s/index.html

This link is listing this 17v @ $225.00



Currently 77 listings on ebay, $12.00 - $315.00

Here is another link on ebay for an unused very nice one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CKStamps-Ca..._3236wt_1187

Is that a crease going across the stamp?..If so that would reduce the price a bit from the actual catalog value in used condition. If not it would be most likely graded as fine-very fine used. Has nice centering and perfs look good. But then those are prices you would get at an actual stamp auction or a serious collector provided it has a COA..a dealer would definitely talk the price down.

No it's not a crease. It's the plastic row guard thing on the display card.

Mindpsyche's listing is a bit skewed and is missing one number, at least according to my 2-year-old Unitrade. What he shows as 17a is actually #17 (red lilac), what he shows as 17b is actually 17a (violet), and missing is 17b, the brown shade, which is the least expensive of all the varieties in used condition. That's most likely what you have, 17b.

Ryan

Agree with Ryan and there are many that assume the browns are the valuable black brown color which are really hard to find. However although it is very hard to see what is going on behind the cancelation over the princes left shoulder it may be the double epaulette variety. That would turn a $60 cat to $500 (2007cat) . There is definatly lines under the cancel and they do look to be very close to what is shown in catalog. Not sure of a really high res in that location would pull it out more. But I'd like to see maybe a 1200dpi and maybe some color enhancement can see through the cancel.

It is a very nice stamp

Atually did a bit of research on the double epaulette and it is actually a re entry . The pic I have in unitrade shows a squigilly line that almost fits the position under your cancel. However Re entries.com shows it totally different and is listed as a major re entry. Sorry if hopes got to high.