Need Some Advice What To Do With This Mint Sheet Of C4 ?

I thought I would ask on here, this sheet of C4 is basically split right down the middle with only the last 10-15 perfs holding on.

What is the best way to monetarize this sheet? Any ideas? I don't imagine it has a much value as a mint sheet now?

Thanks in advance !

Ooo, that's tough. I have had falling apart sheets from this era - not a C-4. If not very well centered, generally, I tend to save the halves of the sheet. If the plate blocks are intact (the bottom one of your's does not appear to be fully intact - too bad) I might break them out. I am looking at the close-up shot and I see some very nicely centered stamps. If you are on ebay, you might get some good $$$ for the better-centered singles. If there are many, a well-centered block of 4 could be somebody's little treasure.

Many people will frown on breaking up this sheet, and I absolutely cannot argue their point. It would be a real pity to do so!! However, if you are REEEEEALLY careful and keep it as intact as you can, and pack it up nicely so it won't fall apart on its way to a buyer, I can virtually guarantee that it will get broken up for the gems. Like I said - it sucks, but I think that is the reality for this sheet, being nearly split all the way in two, and with some gem quality C-4's.

If you cannot bring yourself to do the 'dirty work', maybe you could contact a couple of auction houses and see if it would qualify as a consignment. They should see pictures of how nice some of the better stamps are.

ETA: Wait for other responses - there may be a better idea. Even ***I*** think it's a pity that my advice is to break it up! For all intents and purposes, though, it is essentially already broken up.

A beauty!

Break it up for gradable singles.

I would either sell it as a sheet, and expect the buyer will break out the gradable stamps, or as suggested, break it up yourself into blocks and singles, send some of the gems in for graded certs, keep the plate block intact (even though there are perf separations), as it is better as NH plate block, but not gradable.

Regardless of what you do with it, thanks for sharing the picture of it. Its a neat item to see.

Thanks everyone ! Another question along the same lines, do you keep these rolls together ? Or break them into line pairs ?

Some unsolicited advice on the cils. Get rid of the rubber bands. Eventually they will deteriorate to a point where they will damage the stamps.

C4--You have received good advise, nothing to add.

Re coils. Yes rubber bands and stamps/covers should never, ever, be used together.

A, yes pull the line pair plus a few more pairs or strip. Then use it as postage or see last paragraph.

2c, check perforation hole size, if small, you have a winner and every stamp will have value well over face. However then you want nothing smaller than a pair with a strip of 5 preferred. Otherwise, do as above.

Lately I have seen full coils going well over face on ebay and that would be a way to go as well. If the two cent is small whole, avoid ebay and try dealers or a brick and mortar auction.

Thanks I have read up on the difference between small and large holes and can't really tell, on some it looks like the holes are small then 3 stamps later they look large !

Are all of the stamps in the rolls damaged?

No those are just the 1st four of the roll

As I recall, the recommended way to determine whether your coils are small hole or large hole is to examine the area between successive holes. If it is larger than the hole diameter, you probably have small holes. If it is smaller or equal to the hole diameter, you presumably have large holes.
Your Jefferson coils look to be the small hole variety to me. But I am no expert.
Added: Uncertain whether this will help, but pictures tend to be more useful than words. The upper item is a wet printed large hole 1055 strip of 4 ... the bottom is a certified 1055a small hole pair.

Added: A quick comparison of your coils vs. my examples let me to initially change my guess from small hole to large. But then I decided to take a more empirical approach and try to measure the total hole widths compared to the height of the stamp design. For my examples: large hole 52%, small hole 43%
your stamps: 42%
Still seems to come up as small hole.
As per rogdcam's suggestion, you may want to revise your topic title to include the coil discussion.

I read that and I would look at one set and say small hole then I would look at the next set in the roll and say nope large hole :) Hoping someone here can tell just by looking at the pic.

The small holes topic is interesting but will be very hard to ever find again later given the title and original topic of this thread,

This an an interesting thread on small hole varieties.

https://goscf.com/t/41100&whichpage=1