Bids Up To 350 For A Fake Stamp? Have People Lost Their Minds ?

Its a nice looking fake but.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/23-USA-1918...361520713613

I wouldn't call it "a dangerous forgery". Colors are not sharp enough, cancel looks like it was applied with a rubber stamp, and you can see that it is not an intaglio printing. So, I would say yes, the bidders (unless they are shills) are not acting rationally.

You two guys don't understand how somebody plans to use that stamp . You use that stamp to impress family and friends and all the people who come over to the house . After a few beers you invite all your relatives to your stamp desk where you keep all your kiloware and packet stamps. Then you whip out your album plus maybe a recent news article showing a invert jenny being sold at auction . Then WA-LA ,you show off your album page !!--now you run with the big dogs .It only cost you less than $400.00 and better than a MBA from Stanford hanging over your desk .

Or it could be as simple as just someone with very deep pockets that wants the stamp and it doesn't bother him or her paying what we all think is a silly amount for a forgery.

You have a guy from Latvia who sell it with 50 other expensive Us for $10 including Scott 1 and 2 and the Zepplin

Is it a Peter Winter forgery? I could see the bid getting that high then.

How is a forgery like this produced?

Are items like this one off or would the forger make several in a sheet format?

Don

Wait a minute, I was looking with my phone, now on my computer it's way better than the cheap print from Latvia, this stamps even have mold on it. I will give $ 200 for it but not $ 350 and not for the "MBA from Stanford" I will make a page for it showing it's a forgery

It's a very good forgery and I think the bidders know what they're bidding on.

There are two real INVERTS that are missing ,maybe someone to hide one of the real ones decided to cover it with a cancel . No it is not a Peter Winter copy . I never seen a fake invert that looks that good ,interesting to see what happens to it .

It's very similar to lot #1533 which sold for $350 in 2014.

http://www.rumseyauctions.com/aucti...hapter/58/94

Just imagine who it will look if the ink have not run sideways

Stand corrected ----I never seen or heard that Peter Winter did the inverted jenny . Over the years I seen his stuff and sale flyers which had different stamps but it is a surprise that he did that stamp .

A used inverted Jenny?

dudley, I too wonder about these things. I can think of at least two reasons why the faker applied the cheesy, rubber stamp postmark:

1.) to give the item credibility in his eyes...because he didn't know any better, and
2.) to cover the printing ink colors which are a little faded and quite right, and the basic "uncrisp" look of the printing

What is interesting: the winner is not particularly interested in US stamps.