Today we’re going to be looking at an order that I submitted to William Crowe, the expertizer. A lot of you might be familiar with Crowe Certs. William Crowe was one of PSE’s expertizers in the past, and he now does his own expertizing.

First up we have a nice #138 a so this is the I. grill. This is much more rare and scarce than the regular H grill. This came back as clean I would call that almost very fine centering for this issue. Clean cert and sound, looks really good.

Next, we have a #312. This one is re gummed, but nicely centered and sound.

Next, we have a Scott #3. This one is genuine. It does have a small crease in the top left margin that clears the frame line. That’s an important note that it clears the frame line because you can technically trim and imperforate stamp cutting off the fault and you would be left with a sound stamp.

So as long as the fault isn’t within the design, usually you’ll ignore those faults in terms of affecting the value of the stamp. It does affect the grade though because you would then essentially be trimming down an imperfect stamp and it would go from say a very fine to a fine grade and still affect the value.

The All-Over Grill

Next we have a #79. This is going to be the all-over grill. So usually this stamp is valued with faults because of the all over grill. It was very easy for perforations on the edges to be torn off when separating the stamp. Small perforation faults are normal on this stamp and generally do not affect the value.

Obviously a stamp that has more intact perforations is going to sell for a lot more here. You can see that it is genuine. This one is tied on a small piece and it has normal perforation flaws found on the issue, including a pulled perf at the top right. So again, this is normal for this. issue. I would say it doesn’t affect the value that much.

Next we have a Scott #120. This is the pictorial issue 24 cent. This looks to be fine centered. It has a nicely struck circle of wedges, red cancel. The red cancellation on this issue brings a huge premium value of $500 on top of the catalog value. So we have a nice example here that has a nicely struck red cancel on a sound stamp.

Washington Coil Guide Line Pair

Next up we have a Scott #353. So this is a Washington coil guide line pair. This is going to be a flat plate printing, which means that these are faked a lot. So a certificate is usually required when buying or selling this stamp. This came back as authentic, genuine with original gum and a hinge remnant.

Again, this is well balanced margins. Find a very fine and it’s sound a nice example of a flat plate coil line pair.

All right, next on the list, another flat plate coil line pair. So this is a 3 cent Scott 394. This one is original gum, also previously hinged. And it’s sound again, find a very fine centering.

OK, next we have another flat plate. This one’s Scott #445. This one is just a pair. It’s not the line pair. Again, the line pair has a line down here and that was a marker from the plate printing that was visible on some of the stamps within a coil. They are more sought after and hold a higher value than just the regular pairs.

So this #445 is a regular pair. It is previously hinged sound and authentic.

Rotary Press Coil

Alright, next up we have a graded item. This is a #454. So now this is going to be a rotary press issue. These were not faked as much because the design measurements are different than the flat plate printings. So you typically don’t need a certificate to buy and sell rotary press coils.

That’s a nice sound version of the Type II coil pair.

All right, next we have a Scott #458. So again, this is another rotary press. This one, very fine centered. You can see it’s well balanced on all sides. This one is a never hinged example as well. Looks great. Nice and sound.

These stamps were a different width. In height than the regular flat plate printing It’s usually easy to tell if they’re authentic or not by measuring yourself But a certificate is always helpful and usually adds value. Okay, so here we have a nicely centered grade 85. That’s very fine to extremely fine coil pair. Again, not a line pair on this just a pair, but this is a type two of this particular design.

The Type Ia

Next we have a type Ia. So this is a deep rose color, Scott #500.

This one is really cool because it has very similar design to the type one. Just all of the lines are a little heavier and stronger. So this is a nice never hinged example with a right side margin still attached and also sound.

Next we have a #J58 this one is a pretty tough stamp to get especially sound it’s used. But even at used it has a pretty high catalog value.

This stamp is worth $1,700. A mint version is going to be valued at $11,500 so this is a very rare postage do stamp. It came back as sound. Centering is not very good. Again though, a pretty scarce stamp.

$2 State Official

Alright, let’s take a look at what we got next. O68, $2 State Official. In terms of condition, it is genuine in unused condition with traces of original gum.

The stamp has a small thin at the top left. This stamp, also, there are reprints of it. Usually, they’re pretty easy to tell. The fakes will say facsimile in the top here. In between the Department of State and also there’s just some reprints of these that are pretty noticeably different when you look at their design compared to an original.

All right, last up we have a #J52a. So this #J52a is never hinged. It’s well centered. I’d call it maybe fine to very fine and sound. So this is the Dull Rose. Perf 10 with a single line watermark. That’s going to be watermark 190 and it is a sound never hinged example. Very nice. That’s the stamps that I got back from Bill Crowe.

I hope you enjoyed looking at them. These will become available in my Facebook group. I sell 75 premium stamps just like this every week. These stamps will be on there. Hopefully some of you guys need these in your collection and hope you liked the video.