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

Most of them look like forged overprints to me.

If you can read any of the town names on the used stamps, check to see if they are in the Saar District, if not, then it would be waste of time and money to get them expertised,

Pagoda

I'm no expert, but defining the Saar District might be a bit difficult considering the differing opinions of the time. I'd be careful before ruling anything out.

An overprint should be looked at warily anytime an overprinted stamp is worth a multiple of the un-overprinted version. Overprints are far easier to forge than an entire stamp, so overprints have been the target of forgers basically from the beginning. Some of these look fairly crude, but the forger isn't necessarily looking to fool the experts, he just needs to fool a few collectors with little knowledge of the stamps in question.

Thank you so in you opinion they are foregeries?
Amoungs my grandpa stampsthere are some on aspecial pagecatalogues as '''contemporan forgerys'' so the only explanationwould be that my grandpa did not knewtey where fake and he had them since 1987 as marked in his album '' bought 1987''

Im looking forward on PostmasterGS opinion once he can take a closer look at them as I understand he is an expert on german stamps!
Sorry spilled Coca-cola on the keyboard and the space utton is not properly working

Michel Specialized Germany has a list of Saar "locations" which I presume to be post offices. There are three lists...this era, I believe, then 1947 (Saarland), then 1957 (OPD Saarbrucken).

This is not an area I spend a lot of time with, so someone can correct me if my reading of the catalogue veered off the road.

Unless I am missing something, at least one of the Ludwig III overprints is definitely a forgery. The 10 pf. vermillion or red orange stamp was not overprinted for use in the Saarland. The other Ludwig III overprints seem to show identical overprint characteristics of this stamp.

If you believe any of these are genuine, you should send them to a Bavaria area Bundespruefer in Germany for expertization.