stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Jul 20, 2021 0:43:42 GMT
Received today - forgery??- It was listed as questionable (I didn't pay a great deal for it)
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 16, 2021 20:05:10 GMT
New arrival today, for many years on my want list, the PEXIP 1937 issues (but not the full block, still too expensive):
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Post by stainlessb on Nov 16, 2021 20:41:37 GMT
Very nice!
Still on my want list
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Post by blaamand on Nov 17, 2021 6:57:05 GMT
Below are all of the 10 c bistre imperf stamps I have. I am having difficulty deciding which is which... I "think" the leftmost stamp is #1 (1850), next is #43A (1870) followed by the single, pair and single with appear to be $43B (1871). Anyone with some knowledge of the differences (I know earliest is typography and later are lithography, but that's not helping mea great deal) Larger/single scans if needed any comments most welcome I'm giving this a bump, my apologies for late response! I agree with your identification. The left stamp is from the first emission. This is evident by the shadows on the cheek/chin. This printing was done with great craftsmanship and resulting in amazing details, so the shadows is made up by strings of tiny dots. The other stamps are from the Bordeaux issue, that has a much coarser printing. The same lines on the cheek and chin are now lacking the details. The dots are replaced with more or less complete / continuous lines. Btw - congratulations with your number #2. I hope it's genuine. I'm a bit puzzled by the frame lines at the corners, that extend beyond the corner. Hmmm.
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Post by stainlessb on Nov 17, 2021 15:58:15 GMT
Jon
thanks for the reply. The #2 I think is likely a forgery, besides the frame lines (which I honestly had not noticed) , the grape cluster looks not quite right...
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Post by blaamand on Nov 18, 2021 8:39:55 GMT
Yes, I was thinking the same, that the #2 was a forgery (but left it for you to make the conclusion). It sucks - but there's more chances out there 🙂
Btw - The cancel looks suspicious as well, those type of obliterations had straight lines in the pattern, not wavy. (At least I haven't seen them like this and I've seen quite a few)
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Post by stainlessb on Mar 16, 2022 19:41:51 GMT
like Xavier, this has been on my want list for some time. I got lucky as I did not expect to win this at my bid! Now to acquire the singles! I may darken the background behind the perfs... not sure that is all that important
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Post by brightonpete on Mar 16, 2022 20:35:22 GMT
Nice, stainlessb . What I have done before is scan the stamps with just the white background of the scanner, like this post I did a few days ago. Perhaps the colour of my sheet helps make them stand out. Try it, and maybe black would be better suited with white paper, like this sheet.
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Post by stainlessb on Mar 16, 2022 20:39:53 GMT
i'll experiment- the ivory/manilla tone doesn't show through well- Your white page does indeed stand out!
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Post by stainlessb on Jun 22, 2022 21:32:50 GMT
I am starting to work on pages and mount what nuances I have, (starting with #1.... which wasn't actually the first stamp issued....) but I am finding a "reimpression" without much detail as to how to tell the reimpression (reprint), in some cases there is an early stamp of the same described color
Brun Francon and Storch in Marriane adds Reprint. Special Uses.... but no elaboration on what these might be (and not on all values, some only have "reprint" anybody have any additional insight about these? The do not seem to have the highest CV
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Post by paul1 on Jun 23, 2022 9:15:26 GMT
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Post by stainlessb on Jul 8, 2022 21:02:50 GMT
#1 (about time I started with pages from the beginning)
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Post by hrdoktorx on Aug 29, 2022 21:26:01 GMT
A brand new Cérès issue from France, as part of a souvenir sheet marking 150 years since the introduction of the post card to the French postal system:
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Post by blaamand on Aug 30, 2022 9:47:55 GMT
hrdoktorx That's the coolest design of a souvenir sheet ever. Vive la France!
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Post by kasvik on Jan 30, 2023 20:54:47 GMT
Weekends usually are my stamp time, but here I am on a Monday waiting for a plumber to arrive. Who knew, sink back-ups = stamps?
Here is a French Ceres with a railway cancel, Lyon to Geneva. Nicely centered cancel, too. Just nabbed it; seller's picture. I like the cross-border aspect. There must have been a whole treaty governing that.
But the cancel is smudged, incomplete, or I just don't know how to read it. What year? What stamp? I'd love to know more.
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 30, 2023 21:01:40 GMT
Unsure of the date, my guess is maybe 9, October, 1927
The spot in the cap (I don't think it's a cancel smudge) and the leg of the "R" in Republic make this a likely Type I, issued Sept 1926 through December 1928
I looked through my Sowers and did find 4 railway/telegraph office obliteration. None as nice as Aaron's , and all of mine (oddly same denomination) had the month as simpley a numerall
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 27, 2023 19:34:13 GMT
Today's arrival, the 25c dark blue imperforate, YT #4a, on piece:
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 27, 2023 19:36:24 GMT
nice! 4 well defined margins!
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Post by renden on Apr 27, 2023 19:51:42 GMT
nice! 4 well defined margins! Xavier is a super stamper, Stan - we met with Chris (pic somewhere.....)
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 27, 2023 20:32:18 GMT
I received this today and it made le laugh On the bottom (above the bar code) "Rub on the (can't read it) stamp zone to see what Droopy says" and when you do, in English it says "You know what, I am happy!"
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Post by philatelia on Apr 28, 2023 11:07:51 GMT
The cancels on these issues piqued my interest. I know nada about France and am unfamiliar with the grid cancel - what are those called? Also - the “dot matrix” cancels remind me of the square grid of dots often found on my Venezuelan forgeries. It makes me wonder if the famous forgers were mimicking French cancels. Hmmm - just musing while the coffee kicks in! Today's arrival, the 25c dark blue imperforate, YT #4a, on piece:
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Post by gstamps on Apr 28, 2023 15:37:46 GMT
philatelia The name of the postal cancellation is Grille = Grid (google translation) Some cancellations from the Yvert Tellier catalog:
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Post by philatelia on Apr 28, 2023 16:33:24 GMT
Thank you, gstamps . And now I know that “losange petit chiffre” is the type of cancel the forgers are so fond of using. I can understand why - dots would be easy to fake. This is a dangerous thread for me - I’m now tempted to collect France!
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 28, 2023 16:36:03 GMT
philatelia if you scroll to the top, that stamp and grille are both forgeries. For something (the Grille) that seems so simple, the obliteration on that stamp was the first clue it was a forgery... and then upon closer examination one finds the faults. Beware, France can become a HUGE rabbit hole!!! LOL said Alice
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 22, 2024 22:08:26 GMT
The mail lady must have been wearing a Santa hat today, because she brought me my Christmas gift to myself, won at auction just at the turn of the year, a full copy of the PEXIP 1937 souvenir sheet: We can see the "haricot" control mark at the bottom. It's not in the greatest of shapes, with some fold marks and a few flaws on the back side, but that put it within bidding range...
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 22, 2024 22:53:17 GMT
Very nice!
The one I got had a couple of stains of the back, but that made it affordable.
now if I could find the 5F Sage sheet at an affordable price (excluding the reproductions that are being offered)
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Post by viking1234 on Feb 16, 2024 12:21:02 GMT
This is my PEXIP block 1937, this is Mint never Hingede, with original gum. I bought it in the stamp club which I'm a member here in Denmark. I bought a shoebox with Danish stamps, threee albums for the price of what is similar to 5.5 US$, the first album I opened when I got home the PEXIP block was sitting at the first side. I was paf!!!! How lucky can you be, but ithappense once in a while. I never ever spent 5.5$ that good, it is one of the most beautifull blocks of France and one I never thought I ever come across for a deseant amount of money, but here it is.
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Post by gstamps on Feb 16, 2024 12:59:55 GMT
viking1234Attention... there are also reproductions:
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Post by viking1234 on Feb 16, 2024 13:33:04 GMT
viking1234 Attention... there are also reproductions: I know about the repdoctions seen them, but I noticede they have triangels in the cut bellow, the thing is the stampalbum where I found it only containes of stamp from the periode and earlier, espicially Denmark and Bayern which is ealier than 1937. The block colour seeme to me like it is of age, I ahve no doubt it is the real deal, if I ever gonna sell it I will have et experticede just to be sure, thanks to bringing it to my attention.
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Post by gstamps on Feb 16, 2024 14:01:28 GMT
viking1234I have seen this block several times in this thread. In the Yvert-Tellier catalog this block appears without the bottom 3 perforations:
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