Need Help Appraising Old Mexican Stamps.

Hello everyone.

I've recently been asked to look into my granddad and great granddad's collections, and have now spent several days looking up as many of the stamps as I could, on several online stamp sites. (Stampworld and (20130207) Not allowed by the Staff in particular)

There are a few I have been unable to find any trace of online, and some that i'm unsure whether is worth my time or not. And now I turn to you guys, in hope that some expert opinions will help me further on with this project.

I will be posting pictures of a few stamps now, that I had no luck finding any information on online, and if the staff approves, hopefully more pictures later, of the stamps I am having issues with.

First off: an old 1935 2 CENTAVOS Mexico stamp, and a 1935 25 FEDERAL CENTAVOS Mexico stamp.

Thanks for any information or replies in advance.





Edit: Upon seeing the pictures uploaded here, I apologize for the disturbing picture quality. The 100kb upload limit hit really hard. I can upload in better quality if required.

The top one looks like a talon from a revenue stamp.

Thank you for your reply, and you could be right. Still not able to find it anywhere, even with that information however. Should (am I allowed to yet?) I post more of the stamps I hope to find some value of? I've got quite a large collection here really, and these are only a few of the ones I haven't been able to find info on.

I don't have the catalogue necessary to confirm this, but I believe the second image is a federal revenue.
It would not be in traditional catalogues.

Well that would explain the "Federal" text. But do you think anyone (even ballpark guesses would be nice at this point) would consider this a worthwhile addition to their collection? I still know only the basics of collecting stamps, and while 1935 sounds fairly old to me, it might not be, as well as the condition which seems pretty good to me, except for the one missing tack at the bottom?

Also, which catalogues would I have to look in/aquire to look it up then?

A couple of the other stamps:

The last 3 are German, Irish, & Norwegian and last one is German I believe.

@I_Love_Stamps: Thank you for the reply =). I do know that though, i'm just slowly opening up about the stamps. If I posted a picture of every single stamp in the collection I received, i'd be crashing your browser with the amount of pictures.

Also, the last one is from Greenland. First one is from the Russian Occupation Zone of germany, in the aftermath of WWII. Just hoping that some of them will catch someones eye, and actually be interesting =)

The overprinted German stamp is # 10N14 in the Scott catalogue. You can find this series at the beginning of the "German Democratic Republic" section and has a used value of .65

Cheers!

Brian

@Rileysan: Okay, I guess I can let that one go as well.

Here are the last of the ones I were unable to identify on my own:



It can be hard to see, but i'm positive that the number lower left is 1924.

I believe that last post is revenue, revenue, revenue pair, and two copies of a 1940 postal tax stamp, RA15 in Scott.

There is a 2011 catalogue of Mexican revenue stamps that I have toyed with getting from time to time, but I don't have it yet.

Okay, thank you. Seems like the ones I couldn't identify are all part of the same kind of mexican stamps. Could you tell me which catalogue would have those then, so I can get closer to appraising these? =)

Also, which kinds of stamp errors could potentially be worth holding on to? Found a couple print mistakes, that i'm not sure if I should consider going for.

Any error is worth holding; as for going after them, I would spend a lot of time learning before spending money on errors being sold as errors. I've bought a number of stamps out of the general population that I hoped were errors. A few were. Lots of hijinx goes on in the error world.

I found another book (by accident) that you might help helpful - at least in identifying your Mexican revenues.

http://catalog.stamplibrary.org/Inm...o%207099.pdf

Brian