{"id":1142,"date":"2020-11-16T23:52:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T23:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/?page_id=1142"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:31:43","slug":"expertizing-stamps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/expertizing-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Expertizing Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are four principal services in the United States where you can submit stamps or covers for an opinion about the item\u2019s genuineness.\u00a0 Remember that they only offer opinions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stamps.org\/services\/stamp-authentication\">American Philatelic Expertizing Service (APEX)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nProvides opinions on stamps and covers from around the world. Searchable database of prior certificates.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philatelicfoundation.org\/\">The Philatelic Foundation<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nProvides expertizing services for all stamps and covers. Their site allows you to search over 500,000 previously issued certificates<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampauthentication.com\/\">Philatelic Stamp Authentication and Grading Inc. (PSAG)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPSAG will authenticate U.S., Canadian and some other stamps. See their website for details.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gradingmatters.com\/\">Professional Stamp Experts<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPSE grades U.S. material and some foreign items. See their website for details<\/p>\n<p>A more expansive printed list is found in the INTRODUCTION section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amosadvantage.com\/product\/scott-catalogues-of-postage-stamps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Catalogs<\/a>published by Amos Media, often available through your local library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are four principal services in the United States where you can submit stamps or covers for an opinion about the item\u2019s genuineness.\u00a0 Remember that they only offer opinions. American Philatelic Expertizing Service (APEX) Provides opinions on stamps and covers from around the world. Searchable database of prior certificates. The Philatelic Foundation Provides expertizing services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1142","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1142\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfieldperry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}