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Help Identifying Csa Reprint?

 
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Posted 07/02/2013   2:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Magguss to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
So the images below I emailed along with a bunch of other CSA stamps to a certification company (won't say which in case they might be reading, lol) and he told me all the stamps were fakes/reprints. While I valued his decision, I was frustrated because I thought I had researched them a fair amount, especially CSA #2 (pictured). I wanted to know your thoughts.

I did try and look at a lot of the signs of fake/reprint CSA #2, but I don't seem to have a lot of them. There is no line through the A of States, there are bother vertical and horizontal lines in the background, the S and G of Postage aren't malformed, the 1 in the upper right 10 is not smaller than the 0. Just trying to figure out if this is a reprint why I'm having a hard time comparing it to Sperati, Taylor, Upham and so on.







edit: The CSA #'s are what my untrained novice eye thinks it might be, and shouldn't really be used at face value.
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Posted 07/02/2013   2:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add I95 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They are Springfield facsimiles except #6. I would need a better image of #6 to ID it. It maybe a New York Counterfeit. I will post some image for comparison.
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Posted 07/02/2013   3:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add essayk to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Having access to some authentic originals is the best way to spot the differences, but failing that here is a site that will clue you in on the Springfield facsimiles:
http://www.jlkstamps.com/fakes/fakecsa.htm
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Posted 07/02/2013   3:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Magguss to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Dang. I did do some more reading and saw that the Springfields were more yellow paper than the originals which were more white. Well I bought a bunch of stamps 4 months ago and got hooked, so I'm still learning. I have 1 other stamp that I thought was odd when I was looking at it, but I'll make a new topic for it.

Thanks a bunch for the help!
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Posted 07/02/2013   3:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Magguss to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah thanks essayk, I did visit that site but was unable to zoom in on the images enough to get a detailed view of the stamp. I tried as much as I could to research on my own before posting the question, I just couldn't seem to find a good site that had a good close side by side examples. The sites I did find, like http://home.comcast.net/~kr.baker/c.../geniss.html didn't have the Springfields :-(

edit: I also went to a local Philatelic library and spent about an hour or two looking at books about reprints and fakes. I must have just missed something or wasn't reading the right book.
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Edited by Magguss - 07/02/2013 3:37 pm
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