Another Ebay Bargain Now Listed, But Who Knows What It Is

My Gibberish-to-English translator is broken, maybe you can understand this lot description:

"A140,2c deep rose Type1,Mint Never Hinged,flat plate print,block of 3, Imperf x P12, error print, Un watermark ( I do not see any water mark under the light ) nearest ref SC423B or E various as rose red with water mark.
Mathematically well center.

I am not sure the date of the print, at a guess around 1913-1915 when change over the test print.It was the biggest cock-up in the history of USA postage print. Again, it happen in 1915-1917 changeover from water mark to unwater mark paper and used the gauge of perforation 11 instead Perforation 12 gauge was used.

1913-1915
As the Bureau of Engraving and Printing made the changeover to perf 12 from perf 10 in the normal course of their stamp run they perforated limited quantities of 2 cents with the old 10-gauge perforations in one direction and new 12 gauge perforations in the other direction that caused the production of P12 x P10 or P10 x P12 as indicated SC423A to SC423E.

1915-1917
The 11 perforation gauge was not set in as in this case,instead 12 perforations gauge was set to the production and caused on this 3 stamps. These were NOT machine production errors. This is biggest cock up than before 1913-1915 !

Any questions or enlighten, you are most welcome !
Postage will be refunded.
Seller reserves the right to cancel or post to PO Box address."

https://www.ebay.com/itm/USA-error-...AOSwqrVchTIj

Once again, the lesson is, don't drink and post ebay lots!

Jim

At the risk of being politically incorrect I must state that the Nigerian BS meter buried the needle on this one.

Poor guy this is the first thing he ever tried to sell, we should be more supportive!

Looks like he's sold stuff before but the most recent feedback was a year or so ago.

Time was, I'd send a message to a seller like this and ask how they arrived at a price. I'd either get no reply or a snarky one accusing me of trying to get their treasure at a lower price.

Wow! I've never seen a listing like that before.

If only I hadn't just made a purchase of a couple mixed lots, this could have been the centerpiece of my worldwide "insanity."

Dale

That is a really weird stamp.

There is really no telling though. Someone could have run a perforating machine on them after the fact. That would imply some mark-up...