Just bought a 1,000 stamps on a estate sale. I have a lot of 1 cent stamps.

20 years ago I bought a 10 edition Scott album from the 1890s with hundreds of stamps from around the world many dating to the 1840's including a Penny Black, the first ever official postage stamp. I paid $10 for the album. I also bought an 1803 George V silver Shilling for 5 cents. He had a huge bowl of what he called "old foreign junk coins." and it and other not so junky coins were in it. I spent hours relieving him of his unwanted junk. But the stamps were my favorite and the only thing I didn't sell. I also got about 2/3 of a Scott #2 in pretty rough condition and a bunch of British stamps from the mid-late 1840's and over a hundred American stamps 1847-1860. In the album I found the very first stamp ever issued from each of nine different countries. I still have ever one and won't part with any and I'm not interested in what they are worth. If you look you can occasionally find something like that for sale.

Tengo muchos míralos en facebook

My thought exactly, Joseph. . : .

Shutup

5rgffffgfrgjmhtui88888iiiiii

You can count the grille or if you know the frequency you can use a perf gage since spacing on grills of the same variety are consistent. I've not seen a Z grille in person but I have a grille stamp and can easily see the grille with a jeweler's loupe. I personally don't like the lighter fluid method.

Steve Radell your so stupid get your info right because you make no sense...lol

Better read the Quran. You'll find a solution.

The authenticator was the man who came in and put the lighter fluid on it and he definitely knew more than she did. The thing though is she still got a good deal. She paid $25 for a $50 stamp and probably had a lot of other stamps in the album. Any stamp in decent condition from the period is worth a few dollars. If she has 50 old stamps in that album and they are all the same age and in average condition she has at least $300+ worth of stamps. Anyway, the first guy is only a dealer not a professional authenticator. I'm not an expert and even I would have been able to tell if there was a grille on it using a jeweler's loupe.

If they are not cancelled, you can still use them for postage.

@@jamesdarnell8568 And honestly....that's about all they are worth...is for postage IF they are not canceled.

I forget the collector's name but it was the Mystic Stamp company who gave him the z grille for the Jenny. I think the Z grille was worth more but the Jenny is more famous and I think they wanted it just for marketing purposes. I heard they had it listed in their catalog but nobody offered them the asking price. I don't collect errors so I'd rather have the z grille.

Frankly, to hell with the damn Z grille...I would have kept the Jenny's. I think it was a plate block of 4 inverted Jenny's...but I could be wrong.

Retail price on Ben Franklins: 1857 with certification = $27,500. 1901-1908 = 50 cents each.

Ebay.

@@jamesdarnell8568 Odd are..they aren't even worth the time to even put them on Ebay...especially if they are canceled....

@@dancalmpeaceful3903 There are many stamp dealers around the world who make a living selling cancelled, CTO or common stamps. Mohammed needs to start somewhere.

buy a stanley gibbons catalogue and spend a year or 2 researching and organising them. no point selling 1 dollar stamps individually, postage will cost more than the value. If you think you have some worth 10 dollars or more consider getting them appraised by a dealer, this will cost money but will increase their value. And just because the catalogue says the value is 100 doesn't mean you can put 1000 of the same stamp on the market and expect 100k.

Um no. Educate yourself.

James Darnell Yes everyone uses it still if I had a stamp that could possibly be worth a million dollars sorry I wouldn't douse it in any fluid.

Philatelists don't BBQ.

there are those who collect out of passion, and there are those who buy and sell for profit. Those who buy and sell, are interested in hyping up items. to increase profit Those who collect out of passion, would never, ever, buy a shitty stamp like the one in that reality show Reality shows are the abomination of the desolation.

First, counterfeiters only counterfeit stamps that are worthwhile to counterfeit. They are not going to bother with doing that for any stamp under a few hundred dollars. This is because the labor involved would exceed the price they would get for such a stamp. To do a convincing counterfeit job on one stamp would take 10-20 hours if you are an expert. So figuring someone with that skill would command a wage of $20 an hour or more then the cost would be $200-$400. Then the person who made it usually isn't the person trying to sell it. So the middle man will expect to double his money and if he just paid the counterfeiter $300 he wants $600. But if you are going to go through all that trouble then you might as well do a stamp worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. My point is that if you confine yourself to stamps with a cat value of under $500 you should be fine. Just understand that you should familiarize yourself with varieties that could be faked with minor altering. There were two varieties of a stamp that I wanted that a dealer had for sale. One was worth $5 the other with a missing line was worth $125. But the line was easy to remove using an exacto knife under a microscope I could do it in about 15 minutes. Since I always examine my stamps under a microscope I noticed the buffing of the paper that resulted from the scraping so I recognized it as a fake. it is likewise relatively easy to add ink in a spot to make it worth more. So for more valuable stamps, make sure that it has authentication paperwork from an expertizing service. Never buy a stamp over $500 without it and you will be safe.