Possible 391 Line Pair

I know that the Washington-Franklin coils are often faked, so I'd like a couple of opinions on whether this line pair is likely enough to be genuine that I should try to get it certified.

Looks like the real McCoy to me, but it is hard to tell for sure. Your picture is too small to see if there is ink inside the perforation holes or not. There should not be any


Peter

Greetings Gabriella
If you have a 3, 4 or 5 cent from this issue you can check the perfs by comparing.
The 2 cent 1910 coil is faked by perforating the imperforate 384, there are no sheet stamps that are perfed 8.5.
The cut edges should also be parallel.
If you want to certificate (paper) this pair, I would strongly recommend Mr. W T Crowe, an expertiser who also is a member here. His curricula vitae was on the web, where I found him, years ago, and is very impressive. Incredibly helpful/knowledgeable. Certificates were 20.00 for this issue, his turnaround is very quick.
Best of luck, cheers , mark

edit: I assume you checked and verified single line watermark.

The 'source' material for most all susceptible W/F coils is available here https://stampsmarter.org/1847usa/WFFakes.html
Don

Thank you all for your comments.

A little background: I am reorganizing my collection, preparing to sell or give away parts that do not interest me as much so that I can focus on the parts that are more interesting to me. Personally I would rather have more stamps that are face different instead of a group of stamps that I have to study with multiple devices to detect the differences.

Some of my Washington-Franklin coils I plan to group into lots for auction with notes for prospective bidders to study the scans for themselves. For example, one lot would include 2 each of unused singles that are probably #410 and #411, but I would rather let them go for a low bid than bother trying to get certs for them.

The line pair here, if I get a cert showing it to be genuine, I would then sell individually for closer to its market value.

I have several other stamps which I am considering having certified. Thanks for the recommendation for Mr. Crowe. It will be at least a few more days before I am ready to send anything to him.

Please post where you will have the W/Fs listed when you have them up for sale.

Since these coils were flat plate printed coils, these lines are due to the sheet cutting arrow guide lines.

Update: Mr. Crowe certified the line pair as genuine. I will probably sell it eventually, but not right now.

Since Al E. Gator asked that I would post when I have W/F's for sale, I will note that I just put a couple of lots up for auction on eBay. My name there is the same as my name here.

Hi gabrielela, Congratulations on your very nice line pair.

There is a link here on SCF that will automatically attach your listings you have on eBay. I still enjoy seeing your Avatar very much.

rlmstamps, it is great to hear from you!

I remember reading your posts about a fascinating correspondence between your ancestor and notable people of the late 19th century.

In fact, I just went back and found your story of the certification of a Continental soft paper stamp used after February 3, 1879. I hope you still have the two key covers.