Playing judge, jury and executioner to a stamp

I agree that some of the pictures shown in this thread and in really rough condition. But, If even close to being a full stamp I put them in an envelope and donate to the Boy Scouts so they can earn the Stamp collecting badge. The ones that have actual tears or a chuck missing I would toss. But the disabled Vets homes and some nursing homes have some very bored guys as residents. Even not great copies would be something to occupy their hands and minds.
Nick

Another less obvious candidate for the trash can is the much more common two and a half penny rosy mauve from 1873. SG 141. Cat £150, plate 3 is the scarcest plate number but with clipped perfs right and bottom edge and a horrid rusty stain.

Mostly found with a heavy killer cancel,this one has escaped the messy ink……..nonetheless it is a damaged stamp whose presence in an album would always be an embarrassment…….a marginal spacefiller maybe, but I am inclined to the guillotine

Alex vikingeck you ARE the hanging judge  . I suspect if I did not already have both the recent Great Britain stamps you are preparing to put out of their misery I would keep as space fillers. I must admit I have stamps in similar condition scattered through my own world wide collection. I have also sold the odd space filler on eBay usually in the 4.99 range for high catalogue value stamps. 

I see your point Hugh ,hdm1950 , these 10/- do not come along often ( unlike my two recent examples above which are less scarce)

The “Hanging Judge “ would give yours a reprieve. 🏛️or at least a stay of execution. Obvious clipped perfs but a clean stamp on the whole

Chris Beryllium Guy in the interests of friendship I will ABSOLUTELY NOT give you the 1/- green above , a gentleman of your discriminating taste should not consider it a stamp! even giving it away would be an insult.

I will however concede the two pence half penny might have a decorative value so will hold it on sufferance till we meet up in York.

regret I've not the slightest idea as to RPO cancels and TOR & N'BAY .... in fact began to wonder of the TOR was a play on words re the damage;-) ....... but have to say I find it difficult to bin stamps unless they are true basket cases - pun intended.
I'm slovenly and lazy and my collections reside in stock books since that's a simple way to collect substantial multiples of a single issue, all in one location - but it does lead to over collecting, and so many times I find myself saying, of a stamp, "mmmm, slight damage to perfs., or corner nick, but you never know when I get around to checking my series, who knows it may be a notable variety." And so I end up with 20 or 50 copies of the same stamp, and it's off to the Strand again for another stock book!!

Assume this is another 'carmine' job  -  it's a great colour  -  almost edible, bit of a 'Maple Leaf' too.     She outlived him by half a century, which is a daunting period to continue without your oh, but 'The Queen Mother' as she became known, seemed to thrive well enough. 

Hugh, you could repair that stamp see here . No experience necessary 
Daniel 

Hi hdm1950  my  ‘Hanging Judge’ verdict :

The stamp is common and badly damaged so not worth keeping as a stamp.

However, and it is a big however , it certainly merits a reprieve as a POSTMARK .

I suggest trimming close and square , rotate 90degrees right and show on a white background .

The “TOR & N BAY R.P.O. No. 5” is then the statement  and the damaged stamp is irrelevant.

That's the oddest thing - when I look at hdm1950 's original image I see a stamp on top of an envelope (Normal World).  When I look at the rotated version, especially these two sides, I see a perforated frame laid over top of a stamp image (Everything Is Backwards World).  The shadows make it look different to me ...



Ryan

An optical delusion 😎

I would keep the Jamaican stamp.

I would keep the 30 cent Jefferson as a spacefiller until a suitable replacement has been obtained and then toss it.

Weep with me Oh my Brothers and Sisters, let your lamentations ring out at the sight of this philatelic vandalism .

The sender of these packages must have had shares in Sellotape and Scotch tape! Certainly one of their best customers . He seems to have done it to save licking all those stamps! 

Every single stamp has tape over it ….some in both directions , vertically and horizontally!

/j]


$560 Face value in stamps head for the recycling bin . Not a single stamp which escaped the sellotape apart from 3 of the $1.05 Christmas in the middle of one 25 stamp block 

Maybe we need another click to = “sympathy” 😢😢