gatodiablo
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Post by gatodiablo on Sept 29, 2020 22:49:12 GMT
Here is a potential Costa Rica Scott No. 14, for which the I understand the overprint is a common forgery. How do I tell if it is real or not? I haven't found any clues online, yet. Thanks! Dan  |
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Post by classicalstamps on Sept 30, 2020 6:13:24 GMT
Hello.
Your stamp has what I will call a "bogus" overprint. The real one has a "U.P.U." as part of the surcharge.
As has happened before, a scrupulous stamp dealer bought the remaining stock of these stamps, and created many different overprints, made for collectors, never valid for postage.
That being said, I know of 32 different forgeries of the real Scott #14. Besides the obvious ones in different type letters, you typically draw two lines in between the overprint helping you analyse letter placement/angles etc.
This is specialist territory.
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gatodiablo
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Post by gatodiablo on Oct 1, 2020 2:00:27 GMT
Thanks, classicalstamps - I was confuddled by the Scott catalog description, and forgot to look at www.stampworld.com/en/stamps/Costa-Rica/ , which shows what you are describing. As I said, I figured it wasn't real, so no great disappointment there. Regards, Dan PS, I think you meant "unscrupulous" with respect to those who created the bogus overprints |
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