Number 86 With Printing Defects!

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A very rare type of number 86 with a defect, passed through the mail!!!
Unit 1 in the right denomination is not straight (curve).
On the Valkyrie's face there is a defect in the form of a fang (Valkyrie with a fang).
Rarity RRR+

When your talking about a plate defect, it is fun to find and write it up then mount in your collection .But trying to sell it is difficult . I would buy it for a dollar but if you asked for two dollars forget about it ,not interested .

Using words like RARE or Very Rare should be used when talking about stamps where there is a big demand for. Not something you find in a mixture box which you think has a high value but no demand and the best offer is a dollar .

Also it is better and more clear to describe it as a fat lower lip not a fang .

Why do I have a feeling this is not a rare variety but just a slight variation?

Maybe one of our Germania specialists can tell whether OP is comparing two different printings. The quality of the printing of both stamps looks very different.

I disagree.

Demand has no bearing on whether something is scarce or rare. VALUE, on the other hand, is directly associated with demand.

I have many items that are RARE, but because they only appeal to a very narrow audience and thus have little demand, they have very little VALUE.... but that doesn't make them any less rare.

There are also many items listed in Scott (and other catalogs) that are caught in that sub-several-hundred-dollar range, where they don't justify being lotted by auction firms as singles, so get lumped into bulk/balance lots, despite their being truly scarce items. So they never appreicate commensurate with their scarcity.

I would go so far as to say there are some minimum-Scott-value stamps that border on rare, that one never sees. Since there's no demand though, they have no value other than to the (few) people hunting for them.

Just because something isn't desirable doesn't make it not scarce.

123ber: why do you post here?
Philaseiten.de is a very busy German forum which will answer all your questions as it is populated with many specialists in German stamps.
Also your stamps are all very common, so far.

As a regular watcher of the US part on German ebay, I can assure our readers that "rare", "very rare", "extremely rare" is attached to every stamp that shows a face on the stamp or stamps that are older than, say 50 years....

Might be a little off-topic here, but not really so much. IMO, you're getting into that "rare vs. scarce" topic that has been discussed here a few times. IMO, you're referring to scarcity-- not valuable, and not enough in the market for demand, especially the minimum value stamps that many of the Big Blue Volume 1 collectors are chasing.

Here is a YouTube video that I thought was worth posting: https://www.google.com/search?q=rar...ODR-X-Y,st:0

Opposite of rare is common, where the opposite of scarce is abundant. Made sense to me. Hope this was helpful, Ray

NSK - the left stamp is definitely a War printing. I would categorize the right stamp as a Peace printing even though I see a "15", denoting the year 1915. Michel more or less arbitrarily lumps all stamps with a March 1915 date and later as a War printing.

@Germania, from your and PostmasterGS's earlier posts, I had a suspicion that might be the case.

Being a perfin, there is a chance the company used it some time after buying it.