Notice Anything Unusual About The Vignette On This Stamp?

There are worse stories then this about how they got started, believe me. However, since there is no proof at this point..............

the vignette looks like Curly Howard !

Produced the bogus Maluku Selatan

https://goscf.com/t/52853

1989 Certificate

The article in Wikipedia calls him an expert and shows a copy of one of his certificates. In reality the "certificates" were offers to buy the stamps back should a recognized authority render a contrary opinion. To get your money back you needed to return the stamp on the original sales page with the original invoice. His red handstamp was more an indication that the stamp was sold by the firm and not an expertization mark. It does indicate genuiness when found on Vatican 35-40 and some Liberian air mails as they handled those stamps acting as a new issue dealer

Back to the original stamp in question, since hand-tinted CDVs are considered legitimate artistic augmentation, why not hand-drawn revenue portraits? Could be a burgeoning market...

Why not - the duck world has their "remarques"!

Here is another one to add to the "club."

Maybe two thirds of the actual stamp remain, while the balance has been crudely hand-drawn in.

Tersely described as "repaired."

Jim

http://www.ebay.com/itm/nystamps-US...AOSw1aFZkH1l

Well, he's not wrong.