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NFLD Scott # 267 Overprint - Fake Or Genuine...?

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Posted 03/25/2015   4:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add wert to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi guys...Got this NFLD stamp inverted overprint and extreme shifted overprint....Help identifying if it is a FAKE or GENUINE..?...Thanks.

Robert





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Posted 03/25/2015   5:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is a fake .
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Posted 03/25/2015   5:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Your catalogue page pic lists the inverted overprint as "b", inverted.
The "b" listing says with period after 1921
No period.
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Posted 03/25/2015   5:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
floortrader..
You think so..???
Why...???

littleriverphil..Could be C3a

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Edited by wert - 03/25/2015 5:51 pm
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Posted 03/25/2015   5:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Floortrader, it did not look kosher to me either, but I do not know why. Could you please elaborate?

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Posted 03/25/2015   6:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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littleriverphil..Could be C3a


Oh yeah! Duh! Just like me, skip to the higest catalogue price!
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Posted 03/25/2015   6:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have no idea if the inverted overprint is genuine or not.

BUT it seems unfortunate to have the first reply read "It is a fake" without any accompanying reason, documentation, reference, data, measurement, etc. To comdenm another's material as fake without some evidence or proof is irresponsible.
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Posted 03/25/2015   7:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Why I said it was maybe a fake is that I received a stamp in the mail today and that stamp was stuck to the back of the bigger stamp I had bought..Interesting...
Robert
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Posted 03/25/2015   8:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Cool down John B. ,I am irresponsible in a lot of things ,so that is nothing new to me . But lets get back to subject
First the overprint is too thick , second the comma after HALIFAX is not right it has no "ball" at the top . Third the "t" in "to" is too curved almost like a "c". Fourth . The "H" in HALIFAX at the top and bottom are too long and doesn't show enough opening in the centers .
There is a lot right about that overprint ,but not having a real one to match it up to and especially not being able to see the color tone of the black ink ,it leaves the decision of looking at a poor scan . But for those reasons mention above I would stay away from it ....therefore a possible fake .
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Posted 03/25/2015   8:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is a real inverted scan from VANCE AUCTIONS .

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Posted 03/25/2015   9:00 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
hmmmmmmmmm...

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Posted 03/25/2015   9:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add billsey to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, the 't' in 'to' is quite a bit different from the genuine.
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Posted 03/25/2015   9:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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But for those reasons mention above I would stay away from it


floortrader..Too late...I got it for free...
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Posted 03/25/2015   9:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I can't imagine why this would be the case, but check the perf count on yours against a 73.
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Posted 03/25/2015   10:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is an exert from my NSSC catalogue..??

Could be an AM4-i, or am I not reading this correctly..?

OR ONE BIG FORGERY, AND THAT IS STILL VALUABLE TO MY COLLECTION.

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Posted 03/25/2015   10:41 pm  Show Profile Check revenuecollector's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add revenuecollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The biggest giveways to me comparing the two images:

1. Look at the structure of the comma following "Halifax". In the genuine, it is very tall and elongated, but on this stamp it is short and squat.

2. Look at the numerals in "1921". It is a slightly different font.
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