Low Value But "Impossible To Find" Stamps

Curious what other folks have on their wish lists that your Catalog lists as a stamp(s) of low to moderate value in terms of cost (which would seemingly imply said stamps were not scarce) but just don't ever seem to show up on the usual sites/auctions?

Have many, but the Ecuador Scott RA9 and Lebanon Scott C111-118 top the list at present.

US Telegraph stamps and their 2025 Scott catalogue values
15T9 $6.75
15T52 $35.00
16T7 $42.50

Wartburg castle I have yet to find at any of the Dallas stamp shows or on Hipstamp. Michel DE544, 261, 474cx. I didn't write down all the prices, but 474cx was 2.5 Euros, cv.

The "Tyrol girl" - the 3-groschen value from the Costumes set of Austria - was mentioned frequently here in the early years as one of the rarest of the catalogue-minimum stamps.

The 1'80P Franco was another candidate that came up from time to time, as well as a 6pf Heuss.

https://goscf.com/t/7243

Other threads came along from time to time, such as this one: https://goscf.com/t/55395&whichpage=1

90% of the double transfers listed in the U.S. Specialized. The prices for most have not changed in many decades, and since they rarely sell as what they are.......also the cracked plate of #700. Used, it catalogs $1. I have never even seen a used example, and I have been looking for a long time. They must exist, but as one position out of 1600........

Quote from DefinitiveStampr




What is this 474cx ?

Do you mean Michel West Germany (BRD) number 474?
In the Michel Deutschland Spezial BRD there is no 474cx just 474

I believe by "474cx" DefinitiveStampr is referring to the 1932 German stamp showing Wartburg Castle Mi 474 which has illustration designation "cx".

@nigelc
I think you are absolutely right about that.

When I read Wartburg castle and Michel DE544 I took for granted
he meant this one below issued in 1967 by the Bundesrepublic Deutschland.


So I assumed that the next two Michel numbers were also BRD not DR.

Using the Michel Germany Katalog it should be made clear if were talking about
Deutsches Reich (DR), Bundesrepublic Deutschland (BRD), Berlin (West)
Deutsche Demokratische Republic (DDR) etc

That is it! I have an ancestor, George Konrad Hartung, who was born in Eisenach in 1822 I think. Thought it would be fun to get the stamps of the castle, but they aren't as handy as I had thought. I have the English version of the specialized catalogs that go through 1949, and then the rest of my info is sloppy internet search. I have thought about getting the modern catalog in German, but I was a bit intimidated by having to look up a lot of the words.

I agree Revcollector double transfers are very hard to find. And when I do sell one it will usually sell fast and always for more than catalog