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05:22:09pm
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Just my thinking, before I sent in for a certificate I do research everything about the stamp.
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In the case where the stamp is more valuable I know that the Vincent Graves Green folks have said they will identify it and not charge any additional funds. Honest mistakes can happen in that regard.
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You post a very good question, but if I sent in a stamp with a CV of $1000 and expected to pay $35 for the cert, and it came back as a rare blue paper variety or something worth $10,000, I don't think I would be terribly upset!
APS would charge $300 for that.
Better yet, if it's worth $100,000, the APS member fee caps at $400.
If you have a cert come back as more valuable than you thought, good on you. It's never happened to me in any meaningful way.
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It was certificates (cost, hassle) that made me stop collecting US stamps (was in the Washington-Franklin period) and go worldwide.
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I was under the impression that you can have a stamp expertised by a flat fee, not a percentage of the stamp value.
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15 Sep 2023
05:22:09pm
I have several stamps with certificates but have never had one done myself. Say a person sends a stamp in to be authenticated and the result is negative. Will the authenticating group tell you what the stamp actually is or does that depend on the circumstance? For example, if I send a stamp in to be authenticated as a certain number and it is actually something much more valuable, will they tell me? And if they do, since they get a percentage of the stamps value if over the basic rate, would I be charged a percentage of the more valuable stamp before it would be returned to me? Just curious!!
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10:14:51pm
re: Question about certificates
Just my thinking, before I sent in for a certificate I do research everything about the stamp.
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re: Question about certificates
In the case where the stamp is more valuable I know that the Vincent Graves Green folks have said they will identify it and not charge any additional funds. Honest mistakes can happen in that regard.
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re: Question about certificates
You post a very good question, but if I sent in a stamp with a CV of $1000 and expected to pay $35 for the cert, and it came back as a rare blue paper variety or something worth $10,000, I don't think I would be terribly upset!
APS would charge $300 for that.
Better yet, if it's worth $100,000, the APS member fee caps at $400.
If you have a cert come back as more valuable than you thought, good on you. It's never happened to me in any meaningful way.
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re: Question about certificates
It was certificates (cost, hassle) that made me stop collecting US stamps (was in the Washington-Franklin period) and go worldwide.
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I was under the impression that you can have a stamp expertised by a flat fee, not a percentage of the stamp value.
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