George Washington 2 cent stamps

I can’t seem to tell from looking at EBay auctions which red GW 2-cent stamps are valuable and which not. It seems like identical-looking stamps might have startingbbids of $3, or $2000. I know some have Geo. Looking at you and some are profile. All my GW stamps are used. How to tell if I have a valuable one? This is for an estate, I don’t collect them if you didn’t guess already.

 

I have been helping springfield.arsenal with this endeavor. These are the stamps he's referring to (see image). We have a hard time determining their value as we have found prices ranging from under $1 to $10,000+ for some. We also have a few that are uncanceled.

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I'm not sure I would trust the higher price Washington red 2cent items on EBay. The sold items with high prices typically have only one bid, and many have poor, fuzzy photos which I doubt are sufficient to evaluate an item of that price.

 

Sites like this may help ...
https://www.theswedishtiger.com/ID.html

 

I remember on eBay once seeing a sheet holding a half dozen individual examples of this New Zealand stamp:


Each stamp had a penciled label beneath: Engraved by company A printed by Company A, Engraved by company B printed by company C, engraved by company C printed by company A, etc. They all looked the same to me, and I have no idea how anyone could tell the difference.

The minutiae in stamp collecting is excruciating.

 

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