India: Free India: Azad Hind Stamps

Happy to hear your interest Dave.
Indeed, they were packet material. Perhaps to 1990's
Ebay and the internet has killed a lot of "Junk box material" that appeared at auctions and club sales.
Collectors are a lot more informed these days, due to forums like this.
They can now rummage and "pick" items like these and sell individual items.

I used to go regularly to a local auction guy here in Perth, who held auctions in the back of his washing machine shop,
and I would lose out regularly to a guy who bought what seemed to me to buy willy nilly.
On asking him what he collected, he would say things like, "Not collecting right now, hoarding.
This stuff will be my retirement" and how right he was.

I would see Chinese stock books full of stamps go for $10, now a single mini sheet nearly raises that.
I havn't seen an Azad Hind stamp B.O.B. for 10 years now.

"Shouldn't this thread be more appropriately located in the Cinderella board?"

Debatable : First up, I have no issue where you put it, whatever you think best for the forum, (really

My argument: I have 500,000 images, and I can tell you, things get awkward when you sub classify away from country of origin.
Things tend to get lost under blanket hierarchy. My route has always been a descending order of Importance, Interest, Philatelic or otherwise.

My Library goes something like the following (+ more)

This, in my view is the leanest, quickest, more valuable approach,
having said that, when my allowance is taken up by photobucket, I will not be posting any more images, so how you fellows organise, is up to you,
but you all are doing a great job, and you can ALWAYS shuffle my stuff around as you see fit.  

This made me curious as to how the Japanese might be involved, and I learned that it was due to the semi-postal surcharge being directed toward funding Japanese administration over some Indian islands south of Burma, the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Ryan

That struck me as odd as well,  I am glad you had the verve to follow it through,  I had let it pass through to the keeper.

Just found these in my Vancouver stock books. Pretty interesting history. They will be headed for the cinderella book.

Has anybody found info on how to differentiate genuine Azad Hind stamps from copies?  (Well, as genuine as you get with Azad Hind, that is.)  I can't imagine a German perforating a stamp that ends up looking like the upper left stamp in the first post on this thread ... Germany was well away from ugly line perforations and had been using comb perforations for years (the ones where the perf holes line up perfectly on the corners).  It took the Canadians a long time to finally ditch the line perfs, and the Americans even longer!

Ryan

Short answer.  Not as yet.
I agree with Philatarium.   All the sets I have seen have been line perforated (often poorly)

Two sets sold in the past 10 days,  another short set 8 bidders, knocked down at  $10.

We may be comparing  forgeries with forgeries here,  but look at the difference in colour to James set he posted  (perhaps it may be his scanner)
but the neon type inks look different.

Any new collector wishing to sharpen their understanding / detection of printing methods,
(litho engraved photogravure etc) may want to look at Argentina common definitives of 1954-1959 and 1959-1970.