Category: Philatelic Posts
Spot the Difference if you Can #19 One of the tasks I have been putting off for a while is the sorting of my DDR Officials from the 1950’s. This series of the Arms of DDR can be very confusing & there are many varieties & combinations to be found, especially if you want to […]
Spot the Difference if you Can #18 The former British Colony of British Guiana has some of the most valuable stamps ever issued. The World Famous One-cent Magenta from 1856 is considered the world’s rarest stamp, valued in the millions of dollars: well beyond the reach of most collectors, even if you have the money. […]
Spot the Difference if you Can #17 This past week, I was spending some time completing a couple of sets in my German collection that were missing a few stamps. There is a definitive series from 1948 to 1951 where the higher denomination stamps have some varieties. I was missing the more valuable ones so […]
Spot the Difference if you Can #16 While I was scanning some images for addition to EzStamp (Oman), I noticed that there was a significant price difference in one of the varieties that I had no image for. I went to my 4 volume Middle East albums that I was using to get the stamps […]
Spot the Difference if you Can #15 Recently I got a call from a customer who was entering some Great Britain Machin stamps and he was questioning the value of one of the stamps in our EzStamp database. This collector had 27 copies of a particular stamp valued at about $20 mint & $11 used. […]
Spot the Difference if you Can #14 Many times, we get questions from customers such as ‘How do you tell the difference between …’. The following was one of those questions. These two USA stamps are surprisingly similar but seem to confound many collectors as to how to tell them apart. The two stamp shown […]
What makes a stamp collectible & desirable? This has always intrigued me over the many years I have been collecting. I can reflect on what makes me go after a stamp & have always wondered if others do the same. Primary for me, is whether I have the stamp and if I collect that country. […]
Spot the Difference if you Can #11 These three Greek stamps from 1927-1933 look very similar and are not too difficult to find at all. But many collectors and dealers do not take the time to correctly identify them, causing confusion in online sales listings. We believe you should always take the time to properly […]
Spot the Difference if you Can #10 These two German stamps from July 1948 look very similar and are overprints of the 1946 issue of the same design. There are many stamps in this series that have minor variations, like the ones shown here. These are both Sc# 593E. But the bottom stamps is a […]
Filling the Philatelic Holes! Something most collectors face at one point or another in their passion for stamp collecting is those holes in their albums. Eventually you will get to a point in your collecting area where the items you are missing are very rare and expensive and you are left with holes in your […]
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