Looks like Type I to me.
How to tell if it's fake? When someone writes 321 on the back, that's when.
Seriously, when it looks like it's been trimmed for one, e.g., from a booklet pane. Right side does not look parallel to design.
This should be interesting - the stamp measures the same top and bottom (I blew it up to 6 inches wide onscreen). Do both vertical edges appear to have been cut by the same method ?
Thank you everyone for your inputs.
And thank you Sean for the link. It was really good reading.
Does anyone have an idea as to what I should do with this stamp. I do not
care to have a fake in my collection.
Thanks
If after reading as much as you can about it and feel it may be real, send it in for certification. If it comes back genuine, you have a gem. If not, at least you'll know and can remove it.
I will continue to look into it and make a determination as to what I will do with
it. I do not make decision quickly, but like to get as much information before making
a decision.
For instance, does anyone have a recommendation about to whom to get certification?
Is there one locally here in the Dallas Area?
What might a fake such as this bring in trades/price?
Would it ,if a real fake, make sense to donate it to a larger organization so more
collectors would have access? I belong to APS and it looks like they might take
it.
Well, anyway thanks to all for your inputs.
Before you spend money on expertising a stamp that has likely been trimmed, consider these options:
Take a look at what certified copies of #321 look like, learn about the production of this and related issues and how that might help you make a determination yourself, and consider posting this question on other sites to get a wider viewpoint (SCF comes to mind).
"Would it ,if a real fake, make sense to donate it to a larger organization so more
collectors would have access?"
I had put this away in a binder from one of my box lots, thinking it a common
stamp and not paying much attention to it. To my amazement it is not common
fake or not.
Measured perfs and they seem to be right on 12.
The number 321 is written on what appears to be a hinge remnant.
It appears to be Type II. So therefore according to scott cannot be
a 321, correct. A sanity check here, Other than type, what other
ways can one tell that this is a fake?
re: A real US Scott #321 or not??
Looks like Type I to me.
How to tell if it's fake? When someone writes 321 on the back, that's when.
Seriously, when it looks like it's been trimmed for one, e.g., from a booklet pane. Right side does not look parallel to design.
re: A real US Scott #321 or not??
This should be interesting - the stamp measures the same top and bottom (I blew it up to 6 inches wide onscreen). Do both vertical edges appear to have been cut by the same method ?
re: A real US Scott #321 or not??
Thank you everyone for your inputs.
And thank you Sean for the link. It was really good reading.
re: A real US Scott #321 or not??
Does anyone have an idea as to what I should do with this stamp. I do not
care to have a fake in my collection.
Thanks
re: A real US Scott #321 or not??
If after reading as much as you can about it and feel it may be real, send it in for certification. If it comes back genuine, you have a gem. If not, at least you'll know and can remove it.
re: A real US Scott #321 or not??
I will continue to look into it and make a determination as to what I will do with
it. I do not make decision quickly, but like to get as much information before making
a decision.
For instance, does anyone have a recommendation about to whom to get certification?
Is there one locally here in the Dallas Area?
What might a fake such as this bring in trades/price?
Would it ,if a real fake, make sense to donate it to a larger organization so more
collectors would have access? I belong to APS and it looks like they might take
it.
Well, anyway thanks to all for your inputs.
re: A real US Scott #321 or not??
Before you spend money on expertising a stamp that has likely been trimmed, consider these options:
Take a look at what certified copies of #321 look like, learn about the production of this and related issues and how that might help you make a determination yourself, and consider posting this question on other sites to get a wider viewpoint (SCF comes to mind).
re: A real US Scott #321 or not??
"Would it ,if a real fake, make sense to donate it to a larger organization so more
collectors would have access?"