Colors In Online Listings

http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-SC-336-M...em58bc06ace1;

Here is a perfect example of why you can't rely on the colors you see in online listings. This stamp is supposed to be orange!

Your right Bill..Look at the picture below..Left side colour orange taken from American colour chart I have...Of course the stamp in the middle, and the software I use to accurately capture the colour of anything, and it is not even close to the ORANGE colour.

Not only that but this seems a bit fishy to me?- "WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEND THE ITEM WE INTENDED TO LIST."

What you really cannot depend on is the seller's ability to scan properly.
It is obvious from the background that this is not the color of the original stamp.

A simple adjustment of the background gives this result.




Unfortunately - I can only do so much with the initial bad scan settings.

Wert- Is that patch of orange the same as the color "orange" that the USPS used at the period?

Therein lies my problem with colors. I either have to go by my best interpretation when I look at it, or get the stamp expertized before I buy it online, which is of course impossible.

A stamp could conceivably fade from it's original color into a color that an expertizer would call something else, turning a common stamp then, into a scarce one in the expertizer's opinion. Or vice versa.

I have never been able to solve the problem of the different colors of classic stamps.


-IBFS

On a somewhat funny or sad? note.
This is an image (they all look like this) from a well known dealer on StampAuctionNetwork
He lists many expensive stamps with this quality & seems to do well - WHO is buying these stamps?
I guess we can forgive the average sellers for not posting quality images

I Brake For Stamps...Not sure..All I know is this was from a 1970 American colour chart.