Rare stamps for sale. ????? NOT

[stampie78]

Maybe I should have called this thread "laugh for the day".  This thread is strictly for the fun of it.

Sometimes when I have a few minutes to spare, I will go to Google and type in something to see what shows up.

Yesterday I typed "rare stamps for sale". Very interesting what showed up.

I will post a couple here and more later.

My question is. Are these guys serious in thinking anyone in their right mind would even think about buying these stamps.

Or is it some sort of scam?

The first one is the 1 cent Franklin coil.

Description:

US stamp ERROR Benjamin Franklin RARE 1 cent issue 1922.attached on postcard 1924.The design is not complete on the right side.ONLY ONE PERFORATION.2 CORNERS PIECE.

Dealer wants $32,352.88 CA for this one.

I guess the great "error" is the fact that the right side of the stamps was chopped off during separation.

If you are looking for this rarity go no farther that your own album. It's probably already there. If not someone here on stampbears can get you one for maybe a dime or two.

Next we have the 2 cent red Washington.

Description:

This is very rare - red line - beautiful shape.

Rare find - hard to come by.

$902.06 CA

Can someone please tell me where the so called "red line" is on this stamp? (I assume that's why it's so rare.)

Beautiful shape?  - Big chunk missing in upper left and the whole thing is grossly off center.

Again get one for a dime or less.

[coastwatcher]

stampie78, You can find stuff like this on eBay every day. Just search for “rare” in the Stamps category and have the results listed from highest price to lowest price and the 10 most expensive ones are probably worth about $1.98 in total. All it takes is one nitwit, with more money than sense, to make it well worth the seller’s while to list it.

[coastwatcher]

How can anyone pass up this deal? To make the lot even more appealing, several of the stamps appear to be already enclosed in Harris Crystal Mounts, so you don’t have to go about ruining the stamps yourself!

[bethg]

Well, they are attic treasures....

[I.M. DeBear]

Looks like a little bug damage at the 7c position, yikes!

[stampie78]

After my little journey through e-bay and rare stamps for sale, I decided to take a gander at a couple binders of US stamps that I have yet to check.

I noticed a few on e-bay that were in the thousands  of dollars and described as e.g. 1cent red Washington - red line, Green line etc.

I started looking for those since I had no idea what they were talking about.

A little and I do mean a little research told me that these are nothing more than guide lines. Apparently these stamps are printed in sheets of four panes. (or is that one pane of 4 sheets) In any case you have a vertical and horizontal line separating the four sheets/panes. These lines are guides when the machine chops the large sheet into four small sheets.

So you can find these with lines (same color as the stamp by the way) on right/left/top/bottom with a straight edge.

With the prices on e-bay for these rarities in the high range of the ridiculous I assume I am extremely rich. Who knew?

Now I can book my trip with either Branson or Bezos on one of their future space trips.

Here is what I found in the first binder.

top row -  line at top.

second row - line at left.

third row - line at right.

bottom row - line at bottom.

Some may be a little hard to see since the knife was very precise in cutting right on the line.

Now back to reality. These would be considered by some as faulty stamps and worth less than the regular perf all round copies.

Most of these maybe a quarter or so. But there is a niche for collecting these. Care to hazard a guess who does collect these?

[kacyds]

What's so funny to me is that if you do a eBay search for "US Rare Stamps", look at most of the listings. If they are so rare, why do most of the listings dont mention a catalog number?

[stampie78]

Jul 7, 2021 12:13:17 GMT -5 kacyds said:

What's so funny to me is that if you do a eBay search for "US Rare Stamps", look at most of the listings. If they are so rare, why do most of the listings dont mention a catalog number?

Probably because the seller wouldn't know a Scott's catalog if it fell on him. Better yet have the whole set fall on him. Might wake him up when he gets out of surgery. (those things are heavy)