value question

KingAlanI

I have a sheet of the 2005 U.S. Lunar New Year stamps (all 12 stamps are 37c stamps on the same sheet). The sheet is in mint condition, and at first glance it looks normal (see attached file), but there is something unusual about this sheet- on the other side, I see the exact same stamps! Double-sided! Weird!

Worth anything more than the $8.88 face value?

DJC

Many of the modern commemorative panes are worth more than face (and not just by assigned catalog value). The New Years series may be one of the more collected (ie, Looney Tunes, Hollywood Legends, etc) and may have a premium as a full pane.

As to the reverse, are they fully printed and perf'd stamps? I don't know what the format was on this issue offhand, but if the sheet is doulbe printed as suggested, it should have a decent aftermarket value to a collector or dealer of modern errors.

KingAlanI

Yeah, both sides are fully perfed. Well, technically not perfed...they've die-cuts.

It might have been done on purpose, now that I think about it- 8 is a lucky number to the Chinese, so the Post Office may have made a double-sided sheet so the face value could be $8.88.