CANADA – Sc #102 – 1908 – RED ORANGE – 15¢ – MINT-OGh

Description: CANADA – Sc #102 – 1908 – RED ORANGE – 15¢ – MINT-OGh – PSE GRADED VG-50 Comments = Except for its centering this is a nice looking stamp ___________________________________________________________ Following is an aside you can read if you are bored out of you mind or have time to waste Recently I consigned several of my higher end stamps to an established auction company. Most of these stamps were certified. I was basically told I wasted my money because collectors of world stamps don’t care about superior grades. If this is true then I all I can assume is such collectors would rather buy fault free VG stamps which is OK with me, but I will still seek out higher grades. I started off collecting coins and once independent third party graders established themselves the Holy Grail for me was finding the highest grade specimen for any coin or banknote. These are the items investors want and will pay dearly for to obtain. In fact these people are not really buying the coin, token, medal or banknote but the certification and census data which defines where that item stands in universe of certified specimens of the item they are considering purchasing. These are not collectables they are purchasing but rather investments and they bring tons of new money to this area of collecting. Their interest in the super high end grades does help the collector because as these super grades are removed from the collecting arena the coins in that range between the super grades and high end collectable category become more desirable to the upper level collector causing these prices to also rise, not as much as the super grades but they will rise. However (this is just opinion) because stamp collectors appear to show no interest in super grades I believe the hobby as a whole is screaming out don’t invest in super grade stamps. When I started collecting coins there were less than a half dozen million dollar coins. Now you read on a somewhat routine basis of a new coin being added to the million dollar club. Just how many stamps have been sold for a million dollars or more? These Numismatic certification services handle everything related to banknotes, coins, tokens or medals and they are all graded on the same scale of 0 to 70. Now we come to the field of philatelics and do stamp certification/Expertizing firms grade everything in the philatelic universe? No way. I know they do not grade Stamp Booklets and FDC’s they will however certify them as genuine but no grade. It is the grade that ultimately determine an items value. Yet you can go to Scott’s catalogue and find valuations for numerous First Day Covers and Stamp Booklets ranging from $10,000 to over $100,000 and do you know what they are really worth? Nothing!!!!!!!!!!!! There are no standards for grading any FDC and Stamp Booklets and where do you find the census data if they were graded. Scott could save a lot of money by deleting their segments on FDC’s and Stamp Booklets and other items stamp expertizing firms do not grade. They could pass these savings on to collectors by lowing the price of their catalogues with useless valuations.

Price: 52.5 USD

Location: East Middlebury, Vermont

End Time: 2024-12-09T20:29:05.000Z

Shipping Cost: 1.75 USD