Rare Austria Newspaper Stamp 1856! $$$$$? Red Mercury

OK, everybody beat me to it. I think I'll just go home and play with my stamps...

but anyways I used a phone camera so it may not have the best lighting but darn I'm gonna be super sad if it not real.

This collection we acquired is full of stamps that are worth 20-300 bucks , some I have sold on ebay already. overall the album is consists of more desirable stamps.

But yes I see the tunic is definitely off....

this stamp worth anything even as a fake

is there any chance that this could ever be simply printed onto an envelope as an envelope stamp not a normal paper stamp....

or I guess what I am trying to say is what were they normally adhered too.

* note that I am only 20 and have only been researching stamps for 3 weeks

Depends on who made the forgery. But in general, forgeries aren't worth anything close the genuine stamps. There are only a handful of exceptions in which the forgery is worth more than the genuine stamp, and this won't be one of them.

Sorry we cannot give you better news.

merrrrrr

I didn't check, but if there were, then it wouldn't be that specific $50K newspaper stamp.

As Doug pointed out, there are numerous design differences. I'd be shocked if it were anything but a forgery. But since I'm not an expert, you're certainly free to pay some bucks to get a professional expert opinion.

Thanks for posting the pic! Always great to see stamps, genuine or forged.

k

Thanks for all the help

no, there are no Envelope stamps with that design.

Pagoda

Thanks for checking, Pagoda!

Yours is a copy of a forgery, it is not a known forgery. I would guess yours is a Hialeah Fla. forgery. A computer made copy. They were sold on ebay under the sellers name ATDINVEST .

To my eye, your stamp does not match any of the forgeries in Album Weeds or Serrane.

My opinion is that you'd have to identify the forgery and list the forger in the description in order to have a hope of making more than a minimal amount when selling this. Even then, minimal is relative, as it will go nowhere near an original.

Then again, there is no accounting for ebay, so I guess you never know what might happen...

floortrader, are you aware of any online effort to depict known Hialeah forgeries?

anacapa_antiques stated:




If it is a Hialeah forgery, then the collector gave anacapa_antiques an inaccurate statement.

Should be interesting, if anybody has the time to do the additional research and see if it might be a Hialeah...

k

you guys are the best this is awesome . Im really curious to see who made the forgery and when.

Keep in mind also that certain forgeries are worth more than the real McCoy. Spiro forgeries fetch hefty sums at auctions and fournier forgeries do well also so hopefully not all is lost. But that being said, it appears to be too crude to be one of the famous forgers.

Here is a link to the Fournier Austrian forgeries, unfortunately the high resolution photos are disabled on the page but might be worth looking at.

http://www.geocities.com/claghorn1p.../010/010.htm