{"id":1235,"date":"2018-01-24T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/?page_id=1235"},"modified":"2022-05-02T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:06:54","slug":"214-comparison-of-catalogues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/?page_id=1235","title":{"rendered":"B214 Reference Prices (PM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Update: 02.05.2022<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the catalog shows reference prices.<\/p>\n<p>It is not possible to determine an objective price for a cover document. Every collector has personal perceptions here. However, in order to achieve a reasonable price display, the following ideas were implemented:<\/p>\n<p>First, a stamp is evaluated for itself, i.e. only according to criteria that can be determined on itself. This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Readability (good, less good, bad)<\/li>\n<li>Age (the older, the more valuable)<\/li>\n<li>Market availability (the rarer, the more valuable)<\/li>\n<li>Hand or machine postmark (machine with surcharge for better legibility)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, this maximum postmark value is only intended for a postmark on a document with the best possible equipment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Postmark is legible and has an occasion related to chess<\/li>\n<li>Chess stamp is issued on this occasion<\/li>\n<li>Illustration represents this occasion<\/li>\n<li>Postmark is legible and has an occasion related to chess<\/li>\n<li>Chess postmark is issued on this occasion<\/li>\n<li>Illustration represents this occasion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this best possible condition is not achieved, the price will be devalued.<\/p>\n<p>Private postmarks and meter slogans were not included in the assessment.<\/p>\n<p>A very detailed description of the evaluation procedure is enclosed with this catalogue. It should be noted that version 1 of this presentation was already published as a basis for discussion in GSM Newsletter 232 in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/SST_DEMO_214_GB.pdf\">SST_DEMO_214_DE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Update: 02.05.2022 For the first time, the catalog shows reference prices. It is not possible to determine an objective price for a cover document. Every collector has personal perceptions here. However, in order to achieve a reasonable price display, the following ideas were implemented: First, a stamp is evaluated for itself, i.e. only according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":647,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235\/revisions\/3365"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chessstamps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}