Has Anyone Got A Certificate Of Authentication From Rps Uk?

I have a mint SG38a Queen Victoria Three Pies Gwalior stamp with an inverted overprint. The SG catalogue value is £2,250. To get a certificate of authentication will cost around £50.00.
I'm not planning on selling at this stage, but if I did would a certificate help in selling a stamp?
Thank you


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Naturally. Many of us would expect a certificate to be provided at the time of sale for an item of this catalog value. Absent one, it is legitimate to ask why so? Did the stamp receive a prior unsatisfactory opinion that was tossed?

Thank you! I shall ask RPS to do one - well hopefully it's genuine, I think it is!

Members of the RPSL get two opinions basically for free as part of their membership. You might consider joining to take advantage of this benefit.

www.rpsl.org.uk

Thanks Chipg I didn't know that.

Well I have today got my stamp and certificate back from RPS Ltd.

Interesting that they have said that it is a genuine stamp but 'variety inverted - unusual - is a forged overprint.'

The question is now, does that make it worthless or more valuable?

It has some (small) value to someone with a forgery reference collection. But thank you for reporting the results back.
Don

Is it ok to ask how much, with postage, it cost you get the cert ?.

Don is correct ,it has a value to me and would purchase it for a few dollars .

How is the price determined ,it is determined by the forgeries that are up in public stamp auctions ,I can usually buy them at a price between $2.00 and $4.00 a piece and get them by the hundreds ,there are two lots right now up for auction and the price is estimated in the stated price range .

But back to your stamp .......first thing always is to buy a few yes a few of the regular stamp and compare them to what you got inverted ,it saves a lot of money and if need be come on this chat room and have someone like me or many others to put up a regular stamp and wait for the comments .

Here is a real stamp and maybe one of the regulars here can capture both your and mine and put them side by side for a real look at what the experts in Britain were looking at .

Dynamode, it cost £51.00 Not a quick process it took 8 weeks to come back, but at least you know they do a thorough job :)

Sorry for the delay, I am not getting messages. Bad luck on the cert and the high cost. At least you, and everbody else, now know what the forgery looks like. Just a pity it cost fifty quid to find out.