Classic Fakes

The coin collecting world has been plagued by well done Chinese reproductions of rare coins. I was wondering if the stamp world has a similar problem ?

Hello Ellasguy,I have to say there are a lot of reproductions are not only from China.I hate the fake collection be sold as real one,I met some fake of classical stamps of China,some of them are very hard to differentiate,and lots of collector lose Their money for them.The fake just like mosquito,its damage is not only the itchy skin,the most hateable is its infectiousness and hurt the name of the area.It is the fact of the true world,for me,only through study hard to make a clear distinction between real and fake.

And then there was this guy on ebay a couple of years ago, selling stamps that he made on his printer, with fake overprints, unknown varieties, etc. After awhile, they finally shut him down, he went out of business, but sold his library of images to someone else.

Stamp collecting does have a problem with fakes/forgeries; far more than the coin collecting world.

Stamps faked/forged include recent as well as old stamps, high-value as well as minimum catalog value stamps.

I can't begin to count how many times I've had to tell/explain to a collector that the stamp they have is not genuine.

There are a few collectors that specialize in collecting faked/forged stamps. I like to collect scans for faked/forged stamps. My current interest is in the fakes of the inverted Jenny (US C3a) that began popping up last year. Some of these fakes are quite good.

OK ZhangChen, I didn't mean to single out China on the fakes. I was just relating what many articles have said.

It is true that you relating,I do not want to screen the fakes from China.