The VERY best stamp offer I have made for a very long time.   Have you ever in your stamp buying lifetime seen superb looking British Commonwealth fully imperforate errors offered at around $2 a stamp? 

Well,  this one is a beauty.  I have no doubt whatever it could sell just as easily at  DOUBLE this price.   See the colour photo at base of this page for WHAT you are buying.

Being a well known dealer for 25 years,  and having  the “fastest cheque book in the West”  means I get offered some wonderful spot-cash buying opportunities from time to time.

I bought a wad of 110  pristine fresh mint unmounted  sheets of 50 stamps from a wide range of British Commonwealth countries.   They are all from the mid 1980s era.   All are from an array of tiny and romantic sounding Pacific and Caribbean island nations.   Every sheet was totally IMPERFORATE.    Other than that,  these were exactly the same as the issued stamps -  with normal gum,  margins and imprints,  plate numbers etc,  etc.   We are talking here 26 different sets of 4 stamps,  and 2 sets of 3 stamps.  In total - 28 complete sets mint.

I have looked for 10 minutes and cannot see notes in either Stanley Gibbons or Scott catalogues that these stamps exist imperforate.   They appear to be a totally new discovery onto the world market  –  and have probably not been reported or offered by other dealers during the past 20 years.  I have asked around several very experienced dealers and none has seen,  sold,  or been offered these stamps ever before.  It may be this hoard is a “one-off” –  I have no way of knowing after 20 years.   But if it is,  once these are sold they will be very keenly sought due to the very tiny number in existence.

I understand these sheets came from a one-time employee of the security stamp printers.  He may have simply souvenired these as a curio of the time he was working there.   Hey,  they might well even be real Plate Proofs,  in which case they really are sought after and valuable.   Licked onto a piece of white art board,  and voila!   They might have been put aside by the printers for some kind of official presentation,  or planned archival use etc.

There is no suggestion by me that these were ever sold over a Post Office counter of course,  but nonetheless,  fully imperforate stamps are THE greatest sellers among modern error stamps.  There is an AWFUL lot of material selling worldwide for large dollars that never went anywhere near a Post Office counter of course.   Many Australian decimal imperf pairs that NEVER were proven to have been sold over a PO counter still sell avidly for many $100s each.   Those buyers are nuts in my view,  but they keep on lining up for this absolute clear-cut pilfered printer’s waste at zany prices.   It is a free market I suppose.   

What a wonderful selection of stamps we have here.   Look at the scan below.  These 110 imperforate pairs,  or 220 different MUH stamps  are a mouth-watering rainbow smorgasbord of thematic/topical issues.  

You name the popular topic,  and this lot has it there  –  Birds,  Ships,  Orchids,  Christmas,  Fish,  Girl Guides,  Masonic,  Plants,  Halley’s Comet,  Shells,  Music,  Crabs,  etc,  etc.  The very HOTTEST topicals for sure.  

And there is heaps of face value here too – with most sets going to $2,  $2.50, $3.50 .... with heaps of $3 values as you can see on the scan!  

When ploughing through the catalogues,  I noted these sets as regular ISSUED perforated stamps were typically $US3.50 to $US5.00 type range retail in Scott,  so pairs of them would be $US7 - $US10 ( = $A15 )  a set even if normally PERFORATED!   These countries sell well, and pretty sets like these are always very popular.

It is my guess that the Scott retail for this  220 stamp,  28 complete set  collection would in the common issued perforated form, would be valued pretty close to what I am selling them for fully IMPERFORATE!!!  

In most instances imperforate error pairs of QEII era stamps catalogue in Stanley Gibbons or Scott in the  £100 - £250 a PAIR ( = $A600 )  type levels,  and sell well.   Whenever they are offered at auction they sell pretty much always,  and often sell well above estimate,  as the numbers on the market are very small and collector and dealer demand is never ceasing.

I am offering you here  110 different imperf pairs  (220 stamps) for what ONE imperf error pair often fetches at Auction!

 

This is the way I will cut up each sheet –

[ A ]  110 imperf pairs (220 stamps) - $A 450 = $US 345 approx

[ B ]   Blocks of 4 of the above (440 stamps) - $A 800 = $US 610 approx

 

Be clear about it - these are offered on a  “First Come, First Served”  basis.   When they are sold out I cannot replace them at any price.  

As our American friends say -  “You snooze  . . . . . you lose.”   So email me  NOW  to order these if they interest you,  as if someone makes me an offer for complete sheets,  I will take it,  and bank the profits,  saving me LOTS of envelope addressing and grinding out credit card slips!  

So there we are.  I know if I cut these up into pairs,  and offered them in my ads now and again for literally TWICE  this price,  they’d sell every time.   But for 25 years I have always adopted the K-Mart selling philosophy – “buy big,  buy cheap,  sell cheap,  and bank the profits”.    Using this simple tenet I have consistently made good income,  while many 100’s stamp dealers who told me I "had it all wrong"  got greedy and over-priced their goods,  and have since gone to the wall.   I have sheets of 50 to sell,  so a small fast profit appeals more than feeding them out over the years, and a  low price  is the ONE way to ensure a sell-out.  

I have no doubt whatever that someone buying these and re-offering for sale via circuit books,  stamp bourses,  postal bid sales,  dealer shops,  eBay auctions or whatever  will do VERY nicely  if offered set by set.  Getting back 5 times your outlay etc would not surprise me at all if sold wisely.  Lets see – a dealer selling these for only $US20 a set of 8 fully imperforate stamps will gross you around double my selling price.   If you do not think these will sell for $20 a set,  well you are simply in the wrong business,  I can tell you!    

For the collector,  and topical/thematic buyer,  they do made a SUPERB colourful showing in your album – see the photo for a small sample – there are of course 220 stamps in your $US345 parcel – that’s only $1.50 an imperforate stamp!   You can’t buy a Coca Cola at McDonalds for that!

I  PERSONALLY GUARANTEE  that you will be absolutely and 100% delighted with this hoard.   You have a 100% right to return this lot within 48 hours of receipt in condition as received to receive a no-questions-asked 100% refund of the price paid for the stamps.   How can you possibly lose?    When did regular customers see me get so excited about a stamp lot???   “A very LONG time ago” is the correct answer to that.

Postage is extra,  and will be charged at a flat $A12 for International Registered Airmail pre-paid satchel anywhere on the globe.  These attract zero interest from customs/VAT/GST men in my experience – good news for those of you living in NZ and Canada and Europe!   Australian buyers add $A5 for Reg’d Airmail.  All credit cards are accepted at no fee.  To order fast and easily on-line simply Click HERE now.