The Understatement Of The Month: "Faults"

LOL.

Jim

http://www.ebay.com/itm/USA-STAMP-R...AOSwDrNZVrHm

Had to laugh when I saw this one. Some sellers are absolutely shameless; $1.98 per fragment.

Pizza by the slice? Yes. Stamps by piece? No.

It only lost about a $300 piece !

It's the new way to collect, a revival from the early days:

Here's the front cover of "Rainbow Trials" by David Rowse showing the 2d Blue

Busted! Although I think I'm seeing an ebay trend, as another stamp was shown on site also missing a chunk from the UR corner.

I've returned to ebay recently after a very long hiatus. Finding so much junk like this in stamps gets pretty depressing. At least I can power scroll past a lot of items per hour.

Not only junk, but junk with ridiculously outrageous pricing.

stupid to sell junk like that, should be in the fireplace starters catagory

And among all that debris....an occasional nugget is panned out!

https://www.stampcommunity.org/topi...54978#480360

I recall some years ago Anglo-American Appraisal (an ebay seller to be devoutly ignored) had a one pound Bermuda keyplate for sale that had about the top 15% removed, and then re-perfed. Mike Japp (the owner) did offer an image of the stamp but did not mention any of the conditional "modifications." Instead his comment was that the stamp was "...a very presentable copy of this scarce printing."

Not that he ever had any credibility though.......

Yes, this looks like a trend on ebay.

The silverfish are sleeping contented tonight.

shocking stamps with outrageous pricing, I wonder if the beegees could write a song about that?

Saw one just now ! The seller even has the guts to say "NO FAULTS" !

http://www.ebay.com/itm/268-2-CENT-...232042676535

Haha, the top is "Imperforate"

Bad. I feel the pain.