GB: QV Official Overprints: Army, IR & Govt. Parcels
Aug 16, 2015 6:43:01 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Aug 16, 2015 6:43:01 GMT
I was rooting through more of my piles of stuff, re-sorting stamps in my "yet to soak" pile again (boy, I sure spend a lot of time re-sorting stuff that has already been sorted) and I came across this one. It has a nasty scuff on the upper right, oh well. I was still happy to see the stamp, however, because I don't recall having any other "Govt. Parcels" stamps. So, I looked it up in my Scott catalogue - yikes, no wonder I don't see this every day in a generic pile of kiloware! The nasty scuff will take a big bite out of any potential value, but that's OK for me, I'm still happy to come across spacefillers for stamps I wouldn't otherwise see unless I'm specifically trying to buy them. Value in my old 2008 catalogue, by the way, was $200.
I scanned the overprint at 1200 dpi and it looks pretty good to me - certainly it's typographed, there is the typical halo of darker, thicker ink that forms around the edge of the letters. Comparing my overprint to the genuine one shown on stampforgeries.com (a fine site run by TSF member classicalstamps ) looks good, too - the spacing between the tops of the "O" and "V" is quite a bit different on the genuine overprint and my copy appears to match. I'm sure there are many other forgeries out there beyond just the Fornier shown on the website so I can't be certain without more study, but it seems OK to me.
Ryan
I scanned the overprint at 1200 dpi and it looks pretty good to me - certainly it's typographed, there is the typical halo of darker, thicker ink that forms around the edge of the letters. Comparing my overprint to the genuine one shown on stampforgeries.com (a fine site run by TSF member classicalstamps ) looks good, too - the spacing between the tops of the "O" and "V" is quite a bit different on the genuine overprint and my copy appears to match. I'm sure there are many other forgeries out there beyond just the Fornier shown on the website so I can't be certain without more study, but it seems OK to me.
Ryan
