Underrated Cut-Squares/Cut-Outs In Catalogues

Some interesting examples:

this early "cut to shape" from india is listed in Scott for $14.00, and on ebay is sold for $157.00!



www.ebay.com/itm/360664325870

and this cut-out (blue inside) from Hawaii is listed for $200.00, and sold for $472.99.



www.ebay.com/itm/261238169146

Someone must have wanted them badly.

Don't forget that much of the value could be attributable to the cancel, rather than the cut square itself.

It is true, Smauggie... Hawaiian seems the be the special one... but, the one from India doesn't look unusual.

The Indian lithographs are emphatically not my territory, but that stamp looks like an SG 21a (Head Die II, Frame Die I), which Gibbons prices at £2,750 used with four margins. If I'm right, I'd say someone got a bargain at only $157. It's a nicely used stamp, and not actually cut into.

Many letter writers in India in the old days would cut away the redundant paper around the stamps, to save weight. That's why these 4 Annas are much more common cut to shape than cut square.

Some optimistic faker has cut this forged Jammu & Kashmir ½ Anna stamp round, and applied a fake postmark to it, in the hope of recovering some value



(Genuine stamp on the right. The genuine stamp used is catalogued at £400, so even a smallish percentage of that would still be worthwhile.)

I also have one of these in my British India collection. At first, I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn't get a complete one. However, looking at the prices that were paid at ebay, I am now elated lol.

Chimo

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