Lookup Request - Yvert Et Tellier Catalogue - St Lucia 1967

A request for a catalogue lookup please.



St Lucia 1967 $2.50 Statehood overprint in black.

Yvert et Tellier has this stamp listed as #224a, I know the listed price for mint is €700. Could someone tell me if the Yvert et Tellier catalogue has a price for used?

Stanley Gibbons mention the stamp only in a footnote (unpriced), and I understand Scott provides similar treatment.

Many thanks.


Alex

Wow €700.

In my 2013 Scott it states in the footnote that
the 1c and $2.50 red overprints are only
valued at $6 unused; $9 used

It is a lot of money.

In the September 2015 issue of The American Philatelist p.854 Noel Davenhill suggests that as few as one sheet of the $2.50 value may have been overprinted in black.

That aroused my interest, hence this request for help.

Yvert quotes no price for the used item, only mint. Same in the Michel. Michel 2008/2009 price for the mint item Mi# 216b: € 500

Many thanks SWH for the lookup.

I really appreciate it.

In addition to everything else, the search string centrophila switzerland is a googlewhack (at least until the g@@glemonster gets its hands on this thread).



(For those who have less time on their hands, and may never have encountered "googlewhack" it is a Google search string of two or more words, without quotations, that produces exactly one result. It is less common than you might think.)

Anyway, I wonder how many of these are languishing in $1 cover boxes, unrecognized for what they are? Pretty neat.

Cjd: what is your point?

Cjd, I just tried it because I have never seen one ( apart from yours! ). If you try it now you get three results! One of them is this thread. By the way, SWH, Cjd is just trying to show us a very unlikely scenario. Nothing to do with the value of the stamp!

Peter

I wanted to see if I could find out anything about the addressee. (I didn't, but I didn't look too hard after the above result, which was my second or third search.)

It is often said that if you run across anything interesting that you want to send in the mailstream, use registered, rather than regular, mail. For instance, if a clerk sells you a stamp before the first day of issue, mail it to yourself or a friend using registered mail.

Since the recipient has a "stamp" connection, I wonder if the sender knew there was something special about that stamp when sending it? The letter must have been significantly overfranked, even for registered, no?

OK, I got the point

The only other cover seen in the last twenty years franked with the $2.50 overprint in black was also apparently produced by Alexander D Kroo.

As few as ten covers with the $2.50 franking were produced and posted on the same day at Castries GPO.

Kroo is well worth a Google too.