"Rare" Washington/Franklin Listings On Ebay

I guess that last column written in extremely tiny but very neat print, must have been a catalog value. Probably original gum value on top and used below.

I started thinking more about this collector, apparently Chinese, who did this detailed work. So I pulled out the album. And the pages are very home-made, but every stamp, including all the modern stamps up through the 1970s, has this level of detail written in that same neat handwriting.

(Sorry for the thread hijack - I agree that ebay has more fakes and incorrectly identified stamps than not in some areas like W/F)

Really a labor of love Risny. Nicely done.
If you buy from ebay you take your chances, especially in the WF Series. The high dollar coils are all fake, think 388 or 356. The rest are mostly fake. The last 3 pairs I have purchased I have used reliable dealers and they have all expertised as genuine. If you look around at offerings from Kellehers, or Gitner, or Cherrystone you can find decent pricing on some issues if you know your market, and are patient. I do look at ebay, occasionally buy, 6 or 8 times a year perhaps,but nothing of great value. I like looking at ebay to see what stamps are doing, but not as a consumer. I couldn't help but notice that there is currently a 388 for sale at ebay w/o cert. Fake. There is also a 356... 24 mm ....as is.....no return....fake.
Caveat emptor... Cheers and thanks for sharing Risny, mark

Very interesting.
He, or she, was quite assiduous in developing a prototype version of Stampsmarter on graph paper.

Impressive.

Intentional or otherwise, misidentified W-F's are more common than correctly labeled.

Jack Kelley

I find a lot of that kind of detailed handwritten work in old collections. There were no printers so what was a collector to do! Really brave collectors used ink. I purchased a collection from Siegel awhile back and every time a stamp was added to a 30-volume collection it was entered into a master ledger with Scott number, date purchased, amount paid and catalog value. Every 5 years or so the catalog value was updated, and everything was retotaled. Must have been a CPA or an engineer.

Rodgcam, some of us do the same...but now we use spreadsheets!

Caper - Yes, I use Excel. I cannot imagine doing it all by hand, but they were different times.