sudbury12000
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What I collect: Canada, Great Britain, Germany, World Pre 1925
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Post by sudbury12000 on Apr 5, 2024 17:46:01 GMT
I, like many of you, sort the stamps and then check cat value. These stamps all came on an album page that did not differentiate angles of the overprint. My album had spots for both, so I checked. One of these things was not like the other. Then I checked the CV. Now I am asking how do I find out if the overprint is real?   |
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Post by PostmasterGS on Apr 5, 2024 18:03:56 GMT
All of those appear to be 56° overprints. Due to the catalog value, they're unlikely to be forged overprints, but if you wanted to know for sure, you would need to send them to an expert for examination.
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rednaxela
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What I collect: Germany in all its facets since 1871 (especially German Reich used including postal statinoneries, used), USSR, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Denmark, France. I design all album pages for my collection myself and partly make them available to the general public for use.
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Post by rednaxela on Apr 5, 2024 19:22:12 GMT
I, like many of you, sort the stamps and then check cat value. These stamps all came on an album page that did not differentiate angles of the overprint. My album had spots for both, so I checked. One of these things was not like the other. Then I checked the CV. Now I am asking how do I find out if the overprint is real?
My suggestion for checking assumes that you have at least one genuine, ideally tested, copy of each of the two overprint variants. Then make copies of these (in the same size as the stamps themselves) and do with the copies (!!  ) what I have illustrated in the following picture, i.e. cut them along and (approximately) at the same angle as the overprints. This gives you a template that you can place on the stamps to check whether, for example, the font size, the spacing between the letters and the angle are correct. This way you can at least identify obvious forgeries. This method is, for example, well-known among Berlin collectors, as the Berlin overprint on the Aliied Control Council issues is very often forged. |
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sudbury12000
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Posts: 360
What I collect: Canada, Great Britain, Germany, World Pre 1925
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Post by sudbury12000 on Apr 7, 2024 15:12:01 GMT
PostmasterGS thank you for noticing that, I placed them in the wrong place in my album. The 5pf is the one that is angled at 48 Degrees. I am glad I kept my protractor from grade 6.
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Post by PostmasterGS on Apr 7, 2024 15:57:29 GMT
The 5 Pf is also a 56° overprint. Here's yours (left) next to a 48° overprint.  |
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) what I have illustrated in the following picture, i.e. cut them along and (approximately) at the same angle as the overprints.