Two questions regarding Marvel Value Stamps

[tmcneil82]

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a thread for this already, but I tried searching and couldn't find one. Just curious on a couple of things with the Value Stamps.

 

 

1. Is there any value now to loose MVS's that have already been clipped? Or more to the point, is anyone out there tracking them down and collecting them? I am by no means advocating cutting books that have lasted this long already.

 

2. How would CGC grade a book with an MVS reattached somehow? I could see it getting either a restored or qualified label. I can't imagine any buyer would treat it differently than one with a missing label.

[Amadeus Arkham]

1. No, not really. I've never heard of someone asking for them.

2. I would imagine it comes back either Restored, same as leafcasting pages? Maybe an outside shot at a Qualified label since it would be marrying a piece of an original page onto another one.

[paperheart]

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a thread for this already, but I tried searching and couldn't find one. Just curious on a couple of things with the Value Stamps.

 

 

1. Is there any value now to loose MVS's that have already been clipped? Or more to the point, is anyone out there tracking them down and collecting them? I am by no means advocating cutting books that have lasted this long already.

 

2. How would CGC grade a book with an MVS reattached somehow? I could see it getting either a restored or qualified label. I can't imagine any buyer would treat it differently than one with a missing label.

 

i sold my completed MVS 1 and 2 books for $100's each. The completed #2 is especially hard to find.

[Comicdey]

I'm actively cutting books to complete the set. Have cut 10 books in the last week and combining with stamps I cut as a kid to complete the 100

 

Only cutting very low grade low value .25c value copies.

 

 

[tmcneil82]

Thanks all. I've thought about putting a set together because why not, then realized I hadn't exactly seen them for sale loose ever.

 

Then I thought about what would happen if you splice one into a book thats missing it. I've got a decent grade Astonishing 25 without the coupon, maybe I'll put one in and see what happens. I may end up putting more into leafcasting and grading then that book will ever be worth though....

[Comicdey]

No real value in restoring except maybe an otherwise 9.8 hulk 181 :-)

 

Fun maybe. Value adding not so much

[Artboy99]

Loose stamps do have some value, I have seen them sell on Ebay but mostly in groups of them never singles.

 

There is a Marvel value Stamp thread here:

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7055254#Post7055254

[Mephisto25]

Sometime over the last year a saler was giving away a bunch of them in one of the sales threads. just asking shipping. they were grabbed up pretty quick.

[01TheDude]

I had considered figuring which stamp goes to which book but gave up when I realized in some cases I didn't have the book anymore-- just the stamp. In the end, I didn't see a whole lot of point to the exercise.

 

And "fixing" a book via restoring a stamp back into it seems like a lot of work for not much of a benefit. Probably the only one that would even be worth attempting would be a Hulk 181. Astonishing Tales 25 isn't exactly rare and buying a nice intact copy seems a better use of time to me. Bear in mind, I have my original copy of AT 25 which is in terrible shape (missing cover, MVS torn out) BUT it is fine for a reading copy.

[tmcneil82]

I had considered figuring which stamp goes to which book but gave up when I realized in some cases I didn't have the book anymore-- just the stamp. In the end, I didn't see a whole lot of point to the exercise.

 

And "fixing" a book via restoring a stamp back into it seems like a lot of work for not much of a benefit. Probably the only one that would even be worth attempting would be a Hulk 181. Astonishing Tales 25 isn't exactly rare and buying a nice intact copy seems a better use of time to me. Bear in mind, I have my original copy of AT 25 which is in terrible shape (missing cover, MVS torn out) BUT it is fine for a reading copy.

 

Oh, I didn't ask the question because I thought it could be lucrative. I was just curious what the label would come back as. I half expect them to roll out a "Why?" series of labels if they ever see leafcasting on an interior page to replace one of these.