Why Is The US 1902 Franklin 1c Re-Entry Worth So Little?

Good Morning,

I found a US 1902 Benjamin Franklin 1 cent stamp with a re-entry. When I went to look up it's value I was shocked that it was only one dollar. Was this stamp overly produced with re-entries? Why is this stamp worth so little with a re-entry?

Thanks

Your surmise is correct.

According to Johl, V.1 "There are many shifted transfers of this stamp which, having been entered from bottom to top, show the added lines doubled down-ward in the lower part of the design ..."

Nice DT. Catalogs at 4 times the normal stamp.
As there were 11 billion copies issued, there where 17 plates of 400 entries each used. 6800 positions. There are many double transfers in this issues, so many that Max Johl only mentions a few in Stamps of the 20th Century, Vol 1 page 39 of the book (page 46 of the PDF below) He also talks about the two relief breaks on this stamp.

http://stampsmarter.com/learning/do...oadJohl1.php

French in his work Encyclopedia of Plate Varieties on U. S. Bureau Printed Postage Stamps has two+ pages devoted to different shifts, etc found on Scott 300.

Catalog values for 95% of all double transfers haven't changed in decades. Only a small number of them actually catalog any real amount, usually the largest examples (although not always). Since they don't cat much, few actually look for them and prices don't change. On the other hand, when they are marked and dealers find them, they frequently ask prices all out of proportion to the catalog values. While #300 has a large number of DT's, many are quite scarce and can take years to find if one actively collects them, as I do. But if one loves the hunt, it's a great area to collect.

So I don't worry about catalog value. I list it say for $9.99 and say best offer. Almost all these types sell quickly online and for more than catalog.

Has anyone lately found French's book for sale anywhere?

Difficult book to obtain.

I have a source for this if anyone is interested. I think it's $75 shipped.

Please let me know, very interested.

Perfect !

A couple of years ago I found these two & put them aside waiting for a thread to pop up that I could add them to. I placed a note next to each to remind me of the area of difference, on one of those I put "relief brake under 2 top right",.. so I must have searched somewhere at the time but not sure what I found really ;) So hope you like them & input welcome, thanks.

See the link in my post above, Johl writes about the relief breaks.

Loran C. French also shows a drawing of the "Two Dot" relief breaks on page 32 of his Encyclopedia, shown here.

Thank you very much littleriverphil,
I did try your link (& again now), but it just puts me back in this thread, probably my old system here ;)
I can see why stallzer is keen to have a copy of this book.
Does Scott list a separate number for this as I only have the std. cat. I'll print your scan to put with the stamp too.

It's a link to a PDF on Stamp Smarter. When I click the link, it downloads the pdf, check your recent downloads. You'll probably find a couple.
The above is a crop of a phone pic of that part of page 32 which is a copy of The Shift Hunter letter for Feb 1935 Vol VII No2