Copies Of Every US Stamp? Whoa!

Now this is interesting, to say the least.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/STAMP-COLLE...em3ce05e78eb

I must say I have never seen anything like this before.

This is more about the compulsion to fill empty spaces than stamp collecting. Including anything like this in a collection would probably devalue the other stamps in the album(s) in the mind of any future buyer. I note they say some of the copies will be in black and white: why buy these when many albums include printed B&W or colour images of the stamps anyway. I would sooner spend the $100 on one decent stamp than touch one of these repros/forgeries. Do not buy from Goblin Men.

Terry
(Edit for typo. TC.)

They are hoping to catch a few suckers. There are literally some people with more money than brains and that is who they are hopping to find. This is just like the legal forgers that printed Facsimile and Falsh on the stamps they printed so they could sell them legally. If one didn't know where to look or what to look for. They could be duped. Pun intended.

If I am going to purchase a stamp or sell a stamp I would prefer the real stamp not a copy. Heck I could copy the stamps myself and save the $100.00, but then again everyone has different preferences on collecting. I guess I could start a new collection with copies and call it The Dream Collection of Stamps and sell it on ebay. Just punning.

That seems like it should be up there with counterfeiting in a sense? I mean the images shown look 100% authentic especialy to the untrained eye and duplicating modern postage is a federal offense isn't it? I don't know about you but if I bought an album and found more than forgery it would send all sorts of warning signs, red flags and sirens off in my head and would make me doubt the entire contents on the album! I understand wanting to fill that blank spot in your album but they should be clearly marked as facsimilies/fakes/forgeries/copies/duplicats- ect...

COPIES..COPIES..Copies. I think this person is trying to sell nothing of value for value. and given the track record of ebay he will find someone (or more) stupid enough to purchase thinking they are getting the actual article (rather than a COPY)

Oddly enough he is mostly the Buyer in his transactions.....where he has hopefully picked up equally bogus ball player autographs and coins. Ah, the sweet irony if that were true......

elgies is this your auction? j/k Yeah it's the terminology that bothers me. If someone respectable (like you, another fellow trusted collector) says I have an extra copy do you want it? I automatically think genuine copy not a genuine facsimile you see?

This is leading to made to order copies of classic stamps which are reproductions. However, I am not sure how accurate the reproductions are, but they could get very sophisticated, better and more accurate over time, especially if some computer and special printer are involved. After the printing inks and paper, how about gum and perforation?

nah! not my auction. If I need a COPY of a US Issue I will cut out the picture from a USPS Stamp Guide. We use so many words these days interchangeably when they are really not of the same meaning. A copy is a photo, Xerox or scan of an original, a facsimile is a printed reproduction, a forgery is an item, produced to look like a genuine item to fool someone in an attempted sale, representing the real item. This guy expressively uses the word copy, illustrates examples of copies of issues with high $$ CV, and then carefully words the auction description to perk the interests of unknowledgeable buyers into thinking they are getting USPS Issued items as the real thing and will send, as advertised, copies. (at least that's my take on it.)

Gullibility. Back to Eric Hebborn. When he wanted to shift some of his extraordinary forgeries of old master drawings he would leave them in his studio amongst a folio of genuine, but not so rare, works of a similar nature. Then he would invite an expert or dealer round to assess his latest purchases. Seeing what they thought were original Old Master drawings they would ask to take them away to validate. And this they did, and subsequently asked to purchase them.

At no time did Hebborn offer them for sale. Greed worked the trick for him. He was never prosecuted because it could not be proved that he offered forged works for sale with the intention to deceive. A highly talented artist in his own right, he won a scholarship to Rome where he studied the Italian Masters. Here is a 'Leonardo' which Hebborn (right handed) produced, drawing left handed to emulate the old master's drawing technique and stroke direction.

Terry
(Edited for omission. TC).