On Jun 13, 11:50 am, Sir F. A. Rien wrote:
found these unused words:



On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:25:03 -0700 (PDT), omega45
wrote:

On Jun 7, 6:38 pm, wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:18:59 -0400,
wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:42:35 -0500, Paul
wrote:

If the reverse is stamped in the expertiser's name does that mean it is
a forgery or real? I was under the assumed it was real. The fakes were
stamped falsch in the case of German stamps.

Many times the expertiser is placed on the back. Sometimes it can be
a collector's mark for their own purposes. Falsch, faux, facsimile,
etc. would be fakes for sure.

Well -er- many times anyway.

the question of handstamps ... is only followed by aps and ebay ...
other sites and dealers, the FIP AIEP ISJP, expert committees all
follow a more realistic approach ... simply list the items in their
appropriate category ... "forgeries and fakes" with a descriptive
paragraph ... this is a branch of philately, still being discovered
and researched ...

it is a fascinating field of study ...

I suppose it could be. Many of us wind up knowing a little about them
because of our particular fields of collecting. I wonder what it
would be like to be a forgery expert who spends all the time with
them?

If you collect GB - you need to know about the many forgeries, especially of
the Officials.

All the high values have been forged - some quite well! Some are felt tip
pen 'fill in' of the 'white lines' of Scott #4 to 'make' Scott #2 !

another favourite forgery is to take Plate 3 1.5d and scratch out the edge
of the UL "C" to make an "O" and sell as the Plate 1 'variety'! Thankfully
the letter positions are quite different from being hand punched, so they're
quickly separated as the fakes they are.

eBay's "policy" only applies to items beinf -=sold=- as a forgery. If you
sell a forgery as 'genuine' you need not mark them! Quite a lot from the
nether lands - sorry, I kollum as I see'um.

I note euro-ebay does not follow the handstamp requirement ... most
remain embedded in collections ... forgery specialists, know their
properties.