Mauritius Stamps From Grandpa

I inherited a bunch of stamps. My grandpa passed away and he has always collected stamps and rare coins. He lost stamps that he said are the rarest stamps ever and these might be the ones he was always talking about. Can anyone tell me about these stamps? Pictured are the actual stamps in question.

These are reproductions of two famous ultra-rare stamps. (If they were real, they would be worth millions.) You can read about them here. Because they are reproductions, yours have no significant value. Thousands of such printed reproductions exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postag...of_Mauritius

Oh wow. How do you know for sure that they are reproductions? It is a very interesting history these stamps!

Oh wow, how do you know that your grandpa passed away? It is a very interesting estate you have inherited!

That's a really nasty answer, totally unnecessary.

The reason that it is fairly obvious to a serious collector that they are reproductions is that the colors are too bright and the paper is wrong. They were also printed in a different method than the originals. Even in a scan it is very obvious.

cjpalermo1964, I'm going to assume that you didn't mean to trivialize the passing of one of mistael's family members. I want to remind you that we all started our understanding of philatelic topics at the most basic level.

Did your mother make fun of you when you couldn't hold a spoon as an infant? Did your parents make fun of you when you did not inherently know how to operate a can opener?

Perhaps I'm taking this too seriously. However, I don't think that you are taking it seriously enough.

Perhaps you could provide an answer to a simple and genuine question.

I'm not sure the questions, from the start, were genuine. Just sayin'

Its time to turn up the Super Duper Troll Detector to Supercharged Acuity Level.

And any way, this belongs under World Classics,not US Classics.

Thank you revcollector for providing insight.

misteal, there are many difficulties in how to correctly identify a stamp. Often times it is easier to ascertain that a stamp is not of a certain type. These things take time to learn and most of it is not easy to learn nor intuitive without help.

Please continue to post asking questions. Having said that, you may want to post non-U.S. material that seems very old in the "World Classics Mint and Unused" forum located at: https://goscf.com/f/16 If the stamp albums or other things don't indicate what year that your stamps are, that is a good place to start and where they will help you or at least direct you to the most appropriate forum.

I hope you have fun with your Grandfather's collection.

Hieronymus, what specifically made you think that the original poster had bad intentions? Was it the question that is very understandable coming from a beginner, or was it when the OP asked for clarification and indirectly complemented cjpalermo1964 for the link that he provided?

The egging on "Wow, how do you know" response. And the posting under US Classics. The obvious reproductions. And the grandpa line about losing stamps that were the rarest in the world and might these be them?

Sure, the combination just might be a genuine inquiry. On the other hand, it's just about exactly what I'd say if I wanted to troll a tad.

But the gambit has now succeeded. He's got us fighting each other.

So I won't give him the pleasure of furthering the fuss. G'night all.

Hieronymus, I do understand your questioning nature, however it can be very dismissive at times. I have no desire to single anyone out and I do believe that we are all humans that are prone to err at times.

"The Wow response" could be understandable because misteal got a definitive reply to his/her post after only 5 minutes. A reply that is also not fully understandable by a beginner.




I'm not fighting you. I'm stating that what we have seen is perfectly understandable coming from a beginner. I expect that type of response from OP and I find it to be a prompt for me to hopefully help them to understand things further.

Your response is much more inciting than misteal's is. I just want everyone to get along. Each of us may have our moments that others don't like. Hopefully we can all understand how writings on the Internet can be difficult to interpret and how no human is flawless.

Should Trolls be called out? Yes. Do we have anything as of yet to call anyone out in this thread as a troll? No. Please save your your condemnations until you have something to back them up. It doesn't take long to identify a troll. If you're that concerned, then be patient and your "evidence" will soon reveal itself.

We have a post in the wrong forum about very valuable stamps. Does this not occur regularly? Is it not common for beginners to not know the sometimes subtle or more obvious differences of rarities? Were you not at one point in your life a beginner in a subject that you now find intuitive?

Are we "feeding" a troll if we give genuine answers to what we believe could be genuine questions? Perhaps it is when the reader becomes emotional that a troll has achieved what they want. If neither you nor cjpalermo1964 responded in a dismissive manner, then there would be no question of a perceived trolling. The future may tell a different tale, but for now these assumptions are baseless.

We live in America, right? Innocent until proven guilty, right?

mistreal, I apologize for the issues concerning your posting here. I believe that your questions are genuine and I encourage you to make further posts. As I said before, please try to place your posts in the appropriate forum. Regardless, I welcome you to the forum.

Sincerely,
Ryan

HDNA, mistael has quite the history here.

stallzer... are you surmising he is the Canadian troll?

I don't know how someone's disposition can be determined from eight sentences over two posts.

If anyone can, then please let me know.

stallzer, how do you know that misteal has "quite the history here" based on such limited information?