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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 12, 2024 18:48:15 GMT
Sorry for my delayed response, JeffS It's hard to tell from your latest image what this is. If it's a forgery, then I think it must be made from a scanned image of a genuine example. The image is very woolly, and the color is a very deep, dark blue. If it is genuine, then I am thinking it is likely an SG19 or potentially SG19b Slate Blue. The problem for me is that the paper doesn't look right. I can't tell if it is stained, foxed, discolored, or photographed in poor lighting (or some combination of all those). In any case, at least to my perception, the image looks like it comes from a genuine Cape Triangle. Without an image of the back or the ability to examine the item, it is quite difficult to draw conclusions. That's just my opinion, and of course, others are welcome!
Edit: I should also add that I recently received a multiple of "facsimile" Cape Triangles in an eBay lot. They looked genuine in the seller's photo, and there was nothing in the lot description about them. When I got them, it was clear that they were printed from scanned images of genuine stamps. I note that there is another eBay seller who is asking GBP 3.50 per copy for such facsimiles. In a photo, these can be tough to differentiate from genuine stamps.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 10, 2024 16:13:39 GMT
Yesterday, I was in Angola, during the Portuguese colonial period. This morning, I am in Cape of Good Hope (unsurprisingly). Later today, I need to return to Cuba to take care of some unfinished business there....
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 10, 2024 16:04:56 GMT
COGH Perkins Bacon 6d Color ShadesThanks for your patience, JeffS. I got busy with some other things yesterday, but I am back this morning to show you some 6d color-shade examples from my collection, including one that I have not posted before. Top left: COGH, SG7 Pale Rose Lilac; Top right: COGH, SG7b Deep Rose Lilac Bottom left: COGH, SG7c Slate Lilac; Bottom right: COGH, SG7d Slate Purple All of the above are my identifications. In some cases, those IDs agreed with the dealer's opinion, and in some cases not. The SG7b is a bit blotchy in color, but I think it illustrates how fading can occur, so I have found it valuable in that regard. Bottom line is that I still think that your latest one looks most like the SG7c and not much at all like the SG7 as the dealer had listed it. Back to my bunch here, the big question is whether the bottom right is a real SG7d or not. The Slate Purple is one of those shades whose existence has been questioned by some of the Cape Triangle specialists. I am still hoping to do a color quantification analysis on this stamp at some point to see if that can shed any light on whether it is different from the SG7c or not.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 9, 2024 18:06:35 GMT
Al ( angore), there are already threads for members' pets. Here's one: thestampforum.boards.net/thread/1775/members-petsI am pretty sure there is at least one other, and if/when I find that, I will post it here. Please add any photos to one of the existing threads, which should be found in the TSF Lounge board of the Forum. Thanks!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 9, 2024 17:24:48 GMT
Very nice, JeffS ! Congratulations on landing some beautiful stamps there! Just wanted to comment on the seller-described SG7 Pale Rose Lilac. I think this stamp is much more likely to be an SG7c Slate Lilac on Blued Paper. The color definitely has the slate-gray component to it, and there are some spots of bluing evident on the back. It is a very nice stamp, crease or no crease, but I think clearly one of the slate color shades. I will post a side-by-side comparison for you later today.
Edit: I also forgot to say thanks for re-posting my old first post in this thread from 2019, back when I had a grand total of one Cape Triangle! It has indeed been quite a journey since then! It has been a fun one for me, and I have learned a lot since then, and hopefully still learning. Thanks to you, and Alex ( vikingeck) and Jim ( jkjblue) and Warren ( wm) and everyone else who has spurred me on along the way! It has been the most rewarding philatelic journey of my life to date.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 8, 2024 17:11:16 GMT
I am sorry to say that I got tied up with other things, and I also missed the live presentation. Luckily, I am already subscribed to the BESG channel on YouTube, so I should have no problem accessing it later. I have watched many of these presentations after the fact, including my own, which was a kick to see how I look and sound on video. Sorry for missing, Rob ( REL1948), but thanks again for helping to make these possible!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 3, 2024 16:37:50 GMT
Thanks for your post, Chris ( millersville). There is a thread in the Genuine or Fake? sub-board on St. Lucia, which I started. You will find it here: thestampforum.boards.net/thread/5689/saint-lucia-classic-stamps-forgeriesUnfortunately, the member who responded to my posts has since then left the Forum and deleted his images. I will work on replacing some of those, but I was pretty much able to tell the genuine from the forgeries thanks to the Stamp Forgeries website that you have already indicated. I also note that my scans from 2018 when I was living in France were not the best quality, so I should probably re-scan the material and update those posts. Anyway, it looks to me like you have correctly identified the stamp in your post as a forgery, irrespective of the perf gauge. As I am not a specialist in forgeries, I am content to separate the forged from the genuine and then I stop. It doesn't really matter to me which forger did the work or other fine details. But of course, I understand that others are interested on that level, so more power to them.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 3, 2024 9:29:02 GMT
For some reason, Chris ( millersville), when I was responding to your post, I was trying to do it quickly, and I just looked at the image you posted, without checking the Classic Forgeries website. As the old saying goes, "Act in haste, repent in leisure." I normally perform my due diligence before making a post, but for whatever reason, I didn't do it that time, and it came back to bite me. As soon as I checked the site, I could see that you had it right from the start. It's a lesson I had already learned before, but clearly, I needed a refresher!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 2, 2024 16:20:54 GMT
TSF Newsletter, v8.3 Submissions Requested for Next Week Still Looking for Article on a Stamp-Related EventGreetings, all! This is just a gentle reminder that if you are planning to submit an article for the pending issue of the TSF Newsletter, I would like to receive those this coming week, if at all possible. If you need a bit more time but can still get something completed this month, please contact me by PM to make arrangements. To date, I have three articles in hand, so a big thank-you to those who have already submitted in advance of the requested date. Due to other commitments of my own, I haven't started the editorial process yet, but I will soon, either this weekend or this coming week. I do find it exciting to lay out the articles and see a new issue come together! Then I get to share it with all of you, which is the best part. I have been very proud of these recent issues, and I hope that everyone has been enjoying them. I am still looking for an article on a stamp-related event for this next issue. So, if anyone can give me a couple of paragraphs on a show or club meeting that they attended, it would be nice to keep the Events feature going for another issue. Please get in touch by PM if you can help. Thanks for your support. Stay Newsletter stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 2, 2024 0:51:10 GMT
Just giving this thread a bump to let kevinv, marbles, and rod222 know that I have merged the new thread started by Kevin into this pre-existing one, which is found in the Antarctica board rather than in Australian States. Thanks for your understanding.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 1, 2024 6:11:54 GMT
OK, I have taken a closer look at Morten's ( classicalstamps ) website on these stamps, found here: stampforgeries.com/forged-stamps-of-sierra-leone/I now agree that this does indeed look like a forgery, based on the image below from the website. It is one of the better ones, if you look at the other denominations, but I would now concur that it is likely a forgery. It seems to closely match the example on the right below. Well spotted, Chris ( millersville)! You had it right from the start.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 1, 2024 5:36:31 GMT
Thanks for your post, Chris ( millersville ) I think this is a genuine stamp, not a forgery. If you look at the legend closely, it reads "3 HALF PENCE" and not "HALF PENNY", so it cannot be Sc11 or Sc 21. Sc13 or Sc24, which are 1½d Violet stamps, are much more likely, and the color looks like faded violet to me, rather than bister for the ½d, which is a light brown. I will check SG for perf varieties other than Perf 14. It's just my opinion, of course, and others are welcome.
Edit: I checked my SG 2023 Commonwealth & British Empire Catalogue, but I still can't find a Perf 12½ variety of these stamps. The colors are more sensible, as they are SG18 Lilac (Wmk Crown CC) and SG29 Pale Violet (Wmk Crown CA). Both are listed as Perf 14. I still think this is a genuine stamp, though, and I don't think that the cancel looks like the Spiro generic one, either. But I can't account for the perforation gauge. Is it Perf 12½ all around? Any chance of its having been re-perforated?
2nd Edit: Please see follow-up post below. I have come to the conclusion that this stamp is likely a forgery, after all.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 29, 2024 22:00:50 GMT
This is not a forum expense. It does not benefit ALL members. Thanks for your post, Terri. I understand your comment, but I think it is not 100% accurate. While it is true that not all Forum members choose to take advantage of the benefits that our APS membership gives us, those benefits are, to my understanding, available to all TSF members. In fact, not too long ago, one of our international members (one living in Europe) asked me how to get access to the APS periodicals using the Forum's status, and working with Steve ( Admin ), we were able to help him do that. The list of club benefits may be found here: stamps.org/community/club-benefitsAll of that said, I can understand and appreciate the opposing points of view in this case, and I am also willing to wait and see how the vote goes.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 29, 2024 17:41:21 GMT
Nice one, salmantino! Yes, I agree that CORK seems likely now that you mention it, and I admit that I had not been thinking about city/town names in Ireland, but of course, prior to 1922, it was indeed GB stamps that were used there. Kudos to you on this one, Salmantino!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 29, 2024 17:08:20 GMT
29th February (1904) Leap Year DayThis once-every-four-years event has always inspired me to be on the lookout for items on this hard-to-find date. Today's example from my collection is Great Britain, Scott O60, 1-Penny Carmine Red definitive stamp depicting King Edward VII, overprinted ARMY OFFICIAL and postmarked this date 120 years ago. The city name looks like it begins with CO, and (Edit) salmantino has suggested CORK, which seems likely. As a personal comment, I am delighted to see so many other PM Calendar posts today, so thanks to gbcc , franoise , anglobob , hdm1950 , and armenin2000 for your contributions, too! Interestingly, I note that Hugh's and mine are from the same date in 1904. Great stuff. Stay leap-day stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 27, 2024 22:58:46 GMT
Thanks for the reminder, Rob ( REL1948). I have registered, and I hope to attend. See you there!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 27, 2024 22:38:44 GMT
Thanks for continuing the discussion, de61 and khj. As it happens, I now have these stamps in my possession. My friend decided to give them to me. Is there anything you would like me to do, now that I have them? If so, please let me know, and I will do my best to comply. Thanks!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 25, 2024 19:01:48 GMT
Short SF Bay Area TripGreetings, all! As I write this, my wife is driving the car as we head north to visit family friends for a couple of days. Stamp-wise, I spent several hours on Friday and Saturday de-cluttering my desk, which involved going through lots of stamps that had piled up there. Those were a combination of keepers and trading material. The keepers are mainly from Cuba and Indo-China. The trading material is from all over. I won’t have access to stamps during this trip, so any stamp time will be spent on my laptop, either checking in on TSF or starting to work on the Newsletter. Stay stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 24, 2024 15:36:06 GMT
Gràcia, Barcelona (Catalonia) PO on the "Carrer gran" (main street) of the old town, just this morning. Being Saturday, the office was closed as was the street to cars. So, there was a trio playing Mozart...
Perhaps, some around here would recognize it...
Thanks for your post, Joan! Yes, I think I recognize this PO as the one to which you took me on my last day in Barcelona this past October, so that I could mail a catalogue package to david in Belgium. It's an excellent memory for me. Thanks again for your help with that little project, too!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 23, 2024 20:06:33 GMT
Source: A survey of the definitive Issues of France, 1876-1940 Larry Rosenblum, Phil. Soc. of Lancaster County, 26th January 2022 Not to be the contrarian in this case, but I actually don't agree that the R is inverted. If you look at the P, you will notice that the top of it is cut off in the design of the band. Logically, I think that the top of the R would be similarly cut off. I don't fully appreciate why the artist would have wanted to cut off the tops of those letters, but I think what's good for P is good for the R, so to speak. I always look for what I would call contextual clues when an apparent anomaly seems to exist, and in this case, I think the answer is pretty clear. Just my opinion, of course, and obviously, there are others who see it differently.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 20, 2024 23:52:43 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 19, 2024 4:20:39 GMT
Thanks for your post, Chris ( millersville) I just checked, and TSF member ( jimbo) has not been logged in to the Forum for about 18 months, so it is unlikely that he will respond to your post. Not impossible, of course, but unlikely. I would suggest that you post some more of your Morocco local posts here in this thread, and let's see if we can get some other members engaged in helping to figure out what you have. Thanks again for your post!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 18, 2024 17:57:37 GMT
TSF Newsletter, v8.3 Submission Deadline: Monday, 4th March Looking for Article on a Stamp-Related EventHello, everyone: Just giving this quiet thread a bump to deliver a gentle reminder that submissions for the upcoming issue of your TSF Newsletter are due two weeks from tomorrow. I can be somewhat flexible on that, so if you are planning to submit something, but you need a little more time, please contact me by PM to discuss. In the past two issues, we had nice write-ups from a member who attended a philatelic event. I did one on the Great American Stamp Show in v8.1, and cjoprey did one on the StampEx in London for v8.2. I feel sure that at least one member has attended a club meeting or show since then. If that's you, how about writing up a few short paragraphs about your experience and supply a couple of images? Also, please remember that we now have an Upcoming Events section, so if you are planning to go to an event that will happen in April or after that you would like to let everyone know about, please send me that info, and I will be sure to include it in the next issue. On top of all that, submissions in any other areas are also welcome! I am trying to keep certain features going from one issue to the next, but that's not an absolute requirement, so if you have something else you would like to write about, please get in touch! I look forward to hearing from you! Also, with the loss of our Assistant Editor Jerry B, we now have an open position on the staff. If you would like to be a reviewer for the Newsletter during the production process, please contact me by PM. Stay Newsletter stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 17, 2024 16:37:05 GMT
Work Project Done.... Now for a Little StampingHello, everyone! Apologies that I have been scarce on the boards these last couple of weeks. I have been preoccupied with a work project deadline, which was yesterday, and I am pleased to report that the submission was done in time, after putting in some long hours. It is a relief to have that behind me. Now, we will wait for a few months for our proposal to be reviewed, and hopefully, we will have a response by June or July. So, stamping.... I haven't really done a great deal. During an occasional hour-long break from work, I spent some time going through trading material from a friend, mainly classic French Indo-China, and I found a fair number there that I will keep. I also did a bit of soaking last weekend, and those stamps have been press-flattening ever since, so I need to get those out, organized, and put away. In stamp-related activities, there is a bit more to report. Stan ( stainlessb) and I have been invited to make a presentation about the Soaking Study that we wrote about for the TSF Newsletter, v8.1 to the SOPS (Southern Oregon Philatelic Society). I joined the SOPS some years ago, because I was looking into relocating to that area at the time. The relocation didn't happen (at least not yet), but I have kept the membership. I need to start working on some PowerPoint slides for that. Also, I will be meeting online with Stan this weekend to try to learn more about color quantification using PERFOMaster4000 software. If I can get a handle on that, it will hopefully put me in position to do some more research on Cape Triangle color shades. Stay stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 16, 2024 22:37:30 GMT
Sorry to be slow to acknowledge your nice posts, Alex ( vikingeck ). The pages are looking great, and I congratulate you! As for SG5, Brick Red on Cream-Toned Paper, as I think you already know, there are some who doubt its existence, since it does indeed not appear in the Sotheby's Sir Maxwell Joseph Collection Auction Catalogue from 1982. But then some of those same people also question the existence of SG7d, Slate Purple, despite the fact that certified examples are found in that same MJ Catalogue! Personally, I think that SG5 exists. I also think that TSF members wm and Nemo have both already shown examples from their collections that look pretty convincing to me. I also have an example in my collection that I think may be an SG5, although I acknowledge that you and Jim ( jkjblue ) were not convinced by the scans I provided, which is of course, your right. I would also add that if we try using a bit of logic to argue for SG5's existence, I think the reasoning is compelling. I have pointed this out before, but it is stated in Stevenson and in other sources that the 6d Slate Lilac on Blued Paper (SG7c) is well known to have examples on which no bluing is evident. So, if that's acknowledged as possible, then why can't it also be true for 1d Brick Red? Looking at it that way, I must logically conclude that it should be possible. I would further state that I have enough respect for SG and their catalogues to believe that some competent person saw at least one suitable example of the stamp at some point or other before just deciding to include it in the catalogue listings. So, irrespective of the fact that a few people who claim never to have seen an SG5, conclude that it therefore doesn't exist, I can only conclude that they must have pretty high opinions of the comprehensive nature of their views of the world. Stepping down from my soap box now....
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 15, 2024 4:52:11 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 10, 2024 17:15:45 GMT
Philatelic Puttering....Greetings, stampers! I hope this post finds you all as well as you can be. We have a sunny day in So Cal today, which is a welcome change after all the rain and heavy cloud cover we have had over the last 7-10 days. This past week, I have been very busy with a work-related project. As time consuming as that has been, I needed a few mental health breaks from the project during the week, and I used those times to do some general organizing of my philatelic materials. By this, I mean files of articles and other records of stamp purchases, old album pages, and more. It's been great to get a handle on all of this stuff, which I had largely ignored since I unpacked it about a year ago. A consequence of organizing of my stamp files is that some items that weren't where they belonged have ended up on my desk. So, today I need to clear my desk and put everything away so that I can get back to the stamps. I also found some old album pages with hinged stamps on them that will need soaking. I think I will take a break from the office organizing to do some soaking while the kitchen table is available for the next couple of hours. Have a good weekend, everyone.... stay stampy!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 10, 2024 16:55:35 GMT
.... have a copy of the 1st stamp from Sweden but it was torn a bit. Holding onto it till I can get a replacement. Thanks for your post, Anil. It's a nice starter collection of Sweden you have there. I hope I'm not bursting your bubble or anything, but your 12o blue from Sweden is actually Scott #8, not #1. CV for Scott #1 (3sk blue green) is $5,000 USD. It's still a nice stamp to have, for sure, as it represents the same design as those very first issues. Anyway, although it may not be the best news, I thought you would want to know now rather than be disappointed later.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 10, 2024 15:21:37 GMT
I am so sorry to hear this. Although I did not know Jerry B as well as some members, it was one of his contributions to the collecting community that brought me to the Forum in the first place, back in 2016. He had published a paper on a method for sorting and organizing large mixtures of stamps, and in order to contact him to get a copy of the paper, I needed to join TSF. So I joined, I got the paper from Jerry, and I ended up sticking around. Over the past year, I came in much closer contact with Jerry, as we worked together on the TSF Newsletter. Jerry was a great help. In his role as Assistant Editor, he was our "Punctuation Specialist," and he excelled in that area. I always thought I was pretty good at punctuation, but Jerry took it to another level. And then he took me very much by surprise when he wrote an article about how he started collecting, which became the lead article for the most recent edition of the Newsletter. Jerry was a great stamper and a great man. He was always there to help, and he certainly helped me in many ways. All I can say is thank you, Jerry, for all you did for the Forum and for me. I will always remember you. Rest in peace.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 9, 2024 0:24:58 GMT
Very nice work, khj. Thanks for your posts! Linda: Are you able to provide any additional info about the translation?
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