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Hungary 1871 5kr - What Type Exactly

 
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Posted 02/08/2021   2:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Bloemzee to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi, I tried to identify this quite old looking Hungarian stamp but it is complicated. It has perforation 9,5.
My best guess is that it is a type e, engraved, and the colour is brick red. See e.g. https://worldwidestampscollector.bl...hungary.html
Does my analysis make any sense? Does the stamp have any value?
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Posted 02/08/2021   2:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Calstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


Many (most?) of the 15-plus stamps you have posted today (requesting identification assistance) are of minimal catalogue value.

Catalogue value is reflective of scarcity as well as condition.

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Posted 02/08/2021   2:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You've correctly identified the stamp from the site you've linked to.

It is the engraved type, issued in 1871-72, although I'd call the colour rose-red.
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Posted 02/09/2021   6:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hy-brasil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Agree with Bobby De La Rue. The Scott catalogue calls the basic color "rose".

Note that your link quotes a catalog value, which are always idealized valuations; most stamps sell for quite a bit less. Your stamp is toned at the top, is missing perfs at right and has a small tear at left. Any one of those faults reduces the value tremendously. In addition, the stamp design is badly centered, normal for the issue but catalog value reflects a much better centered stamp. This stamp can still be collected, but it's just not worth very much.

I strongly suggest you put behind the thought that you will find expensive rarities among your stamps, or even that you have the best variety. In any case, once identified here, you can go to ebay to research for yourself for what stamps are actually being sold for and not what they are being offered at. Stamp collecting much less any collecting area is not for beginner treasure hunters.
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Edited by hy-brasil - 02/09/2021 6:48 pm
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Posted 02/10/2021   2:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bloemzee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks all for your help, much appreciated. I am indeed a beginner sharing those stamps I could not identify on the basis of the standard info available to me on the web, incl. ebay. I have learned in the meantime the dominating importance of the general state of the stamp, which should reduce my list of questions if I hadn't become so curious in the meantime :-)
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