vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 20, 2022 17:14:39 GMT
I can live with and accept forgeries, because they are usually recognisable . Fakery & repairs are known to improve a damaged stamp. However when does a " repair " become a fraud ? When the fake is sold or traded without being revealed as a "repair" Some time ago I acquired this Cape of Good hope stamp , I do not recall when or where, nor how much I paid, so I have no redress against the seller whoever he was. I knew it was at best a 2 margin copy . Today I had a couple of new arrivals so thought I'd give this one a bath   r I think the smaller fragments are remnants of the original cover , but I had not realised the stamp had been rebacked to disguise the left hand edge and thin  SG 5 A £300 catalogued item with two margins should retail at about 10% , but a repaired stamp cut into on two sides and only one margin.............£1 anyone ?  |
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philatelia
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What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Dec 20, 2022 18:08:30 GMT
Let's get our scythes and pitchforks then tar and feather the @#$&* culprit who doctored that stamp. What a crook. |
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Post by captphil on Dec 20, 2022 18:34:51 GMT
That is a great dissection of a basic stamp repair. Of course, the best repairs are the ones you never notice. So far. I have only found stamps with thins and tears repaired with hinge paper. These days I am suspicious each time I see "hinge remnant."
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Beryllium Guy
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps 1840-1930
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 20, 2022 18:48:04 GMT
Alex ( vikingeck), I am really sorry to see this and that you have been victimized in the process. Unfortunately, due to the relatively high catalogue values for Cape Triangles and the prevalence of damaged copies, there are quite a lot of repaired examples out in the market, some of which are identified as such by sellers and some not. It may even be possible that the repair was done long ago and that the seller you got the stamp from didn't recognize it for what it was. It's a shame that we will never know. I was also taken in one time by a Cape Triangle that had been re-backed. I bought it on eBay, and I could not tell from the seller's scans that it was re-backed until I received it. When I contacted the seller, he apologized and said he hadn't realized the true condition, and he gave me a full refund. In sort of a funny twist to that story, he re-listed the stamp at half the price for which he had sold it to me, and he copied the text that I wrote to him word-for-word into the new description of the re-listed item. Anyway, I am very sorry that this has happened to you, but I thank you for posting about it. This is exactly the sort of thing that those of us buying Cape Triangles, especially online, should be vigilant in looking out for. |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 20, 2022 18:57:03 GMT
That is a great dissection of a basic stamp repair. Of course, the best repairs are the ones you never notice. So far. I have only found stamps with thins and tears repaired with hinge paper. These days I am suspicious each time I see "hinge remnant." That's a very good point, Phil. I agree that hinge remnants can indeed be a warning sign for stamps like these. I have also seen that some sellers have listed Cape Triangles as being "on piece", but closer inspection of the "piece" does not show that the cancel ties the stamp to that piece. I would not buy something like that, as I would imagine that the stamp is more likely damaged or missing margins and has simply been glued to a piece of paper to hide a thin or improve the appearance by effectively adding margins where they may be missing. In fact, Jim ( jkjblue ) posted a stamp in the Cape Triangle thread that had a missing margin completely added to it. Here is the link to that post: thestampforum.boards.net/post/144011/threadAnyway, great observation from Capt. Phil.  |
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