what do we got here we got an eight-cent book of stamps that my dad got 1971
and it's been misprinted and miscut yeah the uh post office doesn't surprise me they screwed up
some stamps too yeah yeah exactly i came to the pawn shop today to try to sell my 1971 misprinted
eisenhower eights and stamps i researched on the internet i've never seen anything like this
i'm hoping to get close to eight hundred thousand dollars per stamp where did you get these well my
dad worked at a post office he's one of those grumpy old guys that sold stamps he sold him to
a woman who brought him back two days later and said hey these are no good so i gave her a good
book and brought those home and said uh this could be worth money someday okay um it could be you
know anything about it all i know is that this is a good page this is either supposed to be printed
and this is a bad page obviously it's in sideways and it's mis-cut too cause there's supposed to
be perforation there okay i've used eight-cent stamps before when i was a kid that's how much um
a letter was right i never mail anything anymore as far as like bills or anything like that
everything's online back in the early days of the us postal service they actually did not use stamps
the recipient was supposed to pay the postman directly when he showed up to deliver the mail
but that took way too long so in the 1840s they introduced prepaid stamps oxen hair was one of the
greatest presidents ever he built the interstate highway he expanded social security and he fought
for civil rights it's no wonder they made a stamp of him what were you looking to do with them i
want to sell them i'm getting close to retirement and like to have a little extra money to play with
do you have any idea what you're looking to get out of it i really don't how much do you want to
give for um to tell you quite frankly i don't know a lot about stamps at least with coins they'll
make the same dime for 40 years stamps they change them every few weeks i mean it's like a field in
itself but it is a mistake and i'm pretty sure it doesn't happen often so you might have something
worth five bucks you might have something worth five thousand bucks i have no idea okay i actually
do know a guy who knows all about stamps uh been doing it his whole life okay let him get him
down here okay sounds good all right be right back i'm keeping my fingers crossed i'm hoping
this expert can come up with a big number for me hey jay how's it going hi rick the guys call me
down to the shop when they have a rare stamp or rare coin that they need more information about
this is an interesting item there's millions of stamp collectors and there's probably hundreds
of thousands who collect errors on stamps so what do we have here we have more than a miscut
this is four or five errors combined in one okay this is clipped along the bottom corner here
and here and then you have three clip stamps along the top and because these perforations are missing
on this row and this row uh you have a miscut plus an imperforate error imperforate what is
that imperforate means no perforations okay out of millions of these pains produced you don't
see this too often a miscut or a misprint is very collectible because uh they're rare there's very
few of them some are worth just a little bit and some are worth great great sums of money so i mean
how many of these do you think exist like this the miss cut probably in the 50 to 100 range
okay the imperforate pairs uh are much rarer okay how much would it be worth it would be worth um
between five and seven hundred dollars okay it's a lot more than i thought cause i thought you're
gonna say 50 bucks that's a lot less than i thought thanks a lot jay i really appreciate
my pleasure the value of anything is determined by supply and demand and errors that are sought
by millions of people are worth a lot more than errors that are not that popular so the
demand is a big factor so how much do you want for them i'll call it the low end of that 500.
nice not to low in son that's retail okay tell you what i'll give you 400 bucks for him
i am a business i do have bills you know what i mean i mean no one works for me
for free even though he thinks they should uh but i'll give you 400 bucks how about 4 25 4.
4.25 okay sounds good thank you all right i'll meet you right up front all right jeff
i wanted more but that's reasonable obviously 425
is not enough to retire so i'm going to put it aside and see what happens
you