Old Stamps: Album Order, Perforations and Condition
Preserve an old stamp's album position and full design before examining perforations, gum, cancellations, sheet margins and ...
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Silver dollars, old banknotes, stamps, gold and antiques each call for different checks. Start with variety, condition, patina and storage, then compare recent sales so you know which details to photograph before asking for a valuation.
Large Dragon stamps and Red Revenue overprints are different issues and require separate records. Preserve complete fronts, backs, perforations, gum and alb...
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Preserve an old stamp's album position and full design before examining perforations, gum, cancellations, sheet margins and ...
The six-pointed stars gain meaning only when their positions can be recovered beside the commemorative legends, bead circle, den...
A useful chopmark record maps each mark, hole and rim change on a complete silver coin while preserving raw measurements, surfac...
A Fengtien Kuei-mao Guangxu Yuanbao file joins visible mint, date and Kuping inscriptions to complete faces, dragon details, bea...
The Mei Lanfang C94 souvenir sheet needs its issue record kept apart from physical evidence: full layout, margins, perforations,...
Test flat print, raised print and watermark descriptions against one Third Series RMB one-jiao note, using complete faces, locat...