German Reich Stamps ''priced''high By , My Late Grandpa

hello and thank you for accespting me on this forum
Recently I have enherited a colecttion of stamps, most of them are catalogued and priced by my grandpa , amoungst them I found thsi falowing stamps witch seme to be valued by my grandpa and a enormouss price
I couldnt find the douyble overprint I think is called anywhere on the internet
Any suggesttions would be great!

Hi Alexandra, and a very welcome to this forum! That is a beautiful collection of mis-prints your grandfather left you. I do not know much about these, but we have an expert on this forum by the name of "Postmaster". Hopefully he will chime in soon!

Peter

Nice, I am anticipating to hear more about these.

Regards,
Stampalotapus

These items are real keepers. Check out these auction results from 2011: http://www.cherrystoneauctions.com/...country=SAAR

Welcome to the forum Alexandra. These are great specimens from a part of the world with a really mixed and fascinating history. Your grandfather has a fine eye.

ALEX --You need to contact one of the major stamp auction firms in Germany . They will need to see the actual stamps and may require that those stamps be expertized before they place them in a public auction ,you can expect that it will be 4 to 8 months for the whole process goes thru before funds are send to you . If they are fakes and returned to you, them you still sell them with the bad certificates on the internet .Even if they are not real they still have a value .

I assume that the notes in your images are from your Grandfather. They refer to listings in the Michel Deutschland-Spezial Katalog, which is the "Bible" for collectors of German stamps. The catalog is in German, but is not difficult to understand even if you don't know the German language.

Looking in my copy (2010 edition), I see catalog values a bit higher than he noted.

Interesting collection of double overprints and inverted overprints. Since many of these stamps are used, one will have to look closely at both the overprints and postmarks to see whether the postmarks were applied over the overprints or the overprints were applied over the postmarks. If the overprints were applied over the postmarks then the overprints were added later to make the stamps more valuable. Expertization is very important to get for these stamps.

I believe most of these are forgeries. I'll take a closer look this weekend when I get access to a screen larger than my iPad.

German double overprints which I have seen are not spaced as widely apart as on these stamps. I look forward to PostmasterGS' further opinion.

Thank you all for the kind asnwers and opinions
the collecttion is a litlle larger bgut I have cjhosed the ones that semed to have large value in my late grandpas opnion
I could not find his Michael album amoungst his things
there is also a 3Pf with a double overprint!!

It is important to understand that the majority of overprinted stamps from this series that are currently on the market today are forgeries. The original stamps (without overprints) are very common, so it is quite easy (and profitable) to turn common stamps into expensive stamps by overprinting them with an uncommon, if not rare, overprint.

Here is an article on the postal history of Saar. It is quite fascinating!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posta..._of_the_Saar

Brian

Please get those stamps expertized from someone who knows the material. Don't rely on anyone who is looking at poor out of focus scans on a chat room .

Here is what you need to help expertize those stamps plus a reference manual like the GPS REFERENCE MANUAL OF FORGERIES BY BOHNE . Those scans are just too poor .

More examples to be used during testing

alexandra,


Forgeries of these are very common, so don't get your hope up - just yet

A BPP certificate for these are the gold standard. I don't recommend trying to sell them without one. The current listed BPP expert for these are Christian E. Geigle:

https://www.bpp.de/de/BPP-Briefmark...-Geigle.html

An alternative is researching if they are genuine or not yourself. A lot of fun if you are into that sort of thing