The Crazyness Of Gradded Imperf Stamps

So I could buy these "100J" graded stamps:




Because they are clearly more valuable than these sheets:

I suppose there needs to be a compensation for destroying 8 stamps to get just 1 stamp graded 100j. However, it seems to me this could be referred to as an Expertizer's Folly for starting such nonsense. IMO imperforate stamps taken from souvenir sheets should be excluded from grading.

So this thread opens up a question that I have. I'm new to stamps, my father had a great unorganized collection and I've been slowly working on it. Its funny how ebay has pretty much ruined the fun. You want it, its there, just pay the money!!!

Ok so my question is all the Farley Follies sheets. How do you collect them? Do you need to get blocks with large margins so they can't be confused with earlier printings or does it really not matter???

How do you tell a block of 751 from a 769??

Balessa,

For the souvenir sheet issues of the 1935 Special Printing (Farley's Follies) you need either adjacent stamps from the next pane or oversized margins.

Near the end of the long series of posts on the 1934 National Parks and 1935 Farley Reprints, I show some of the items from my collection.

You can find it here on Stamp Community at https://goscf.com/t/54752

I'm generally a fan of grading, but grading imperfs like they do makes me mad.

I just don't get it. Finding the "perfect" stamp as it came out of the printing facility and was seperated from its neighbors back in the day is a challenge. Taking a pair of scissors and chopping up a multiple yourself is something a really well trained monkey could do. Why wouldn't a person dumb enough to pay for this just cut their own and save a lot of money? Oops, I answered my own question.

Any flawless imperforate that has more than 50% of the margin between the stamps should get a 100J. Exactly 50% of the margin should get a 100.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

They may be reference copies! LOL MBA

They need to refuse to grade all imperforate stamps. Just like they do for a straight edge stamps now. Or grade one "damaged block of 9".

That is never going to happen. PSE and PSAG are for profit companies; they are not about to stop a revenue stream simply because some collectors don't like it. The others won't stop because they are not going to give up any money either, especially not to turn it over to their competitors.

I think that education is the key...buyer education that includes which sellers to support and which sellers to avoid.
Don

A single showing parts of adjacent stamps should be considered to be defective block of 9. What happens if the imperf stamp is (or was) se-tenant?