Help About Rayons Stamps

Hi, I want to evaluate these Swiss Ray stamps. Thank you.

I would reccomend you change the title to - Help with Early Swiss Stamps or, need assistance to evaluate Swiss Stamps. When I saw the word Rayons, I thought of Rayon material, confusing. Use of clear wording will help everyone. By the way, welcome to the form. Some have small to close and just into frame margins, but otherwise clean and nice looking material, and unfortunately the 2 1/2 from 1850 has a clipped corner, depreciating the value. Without seeing in person, or backsides that is my opinion.

Mike

Edit: corrected spelling, again.

"Rayon", if I understand correctly, is translated as "Zone", which is why you see "Rayon" I, II, etc. on early Switzerland stamps.

As a casual collector of Switzerland stamps, I treat ALL "Rayon" stamps as counterfeit unless they have an expertizing certificate with them, and you are likely to be told the same thing by any potential buyer.

If these were my stamps, I would not bother paying for expertizing certificates for any of them.

Brian

Just to clarify, I did not give any expert opinion about these stamps as to being valid or counterfit as I am not knowledgeable about Swiss issues. That is why I only commented on the appeaance of them, without seeing them in person. Just my opinion. Rileysan, thanks for the information, understnding of the word as I was unaware of that.

Mike

Poor photos. if you want an opinion ; take the effort and post individual photos of each stamp. Members may take an hour or more of their time to examine these stamps...