Gonna Call This One As A Fake

May want to ask the individual that you derided in your comment for his technique(s).

Jim




If you mean "you" in the personal sense rather than the royal sense, then, to answer your question, I look at the color of the ink of the stamp, the cancellation date, the paper, the margins of known genuine imperforate stamps, the fact that these three examples all have notches in their tiny margins and don't have any notches in any other margins (which can't possibly just be a coincidence), the asking price of the stamp by the seller, the comparative catalog value between what a fully perforated stamp is listed at versus what an imperforate stamp is listed at, comparison to stamps in my collection, some basic common sense, some logical deduction based on the evidence at hand, and a variety of other methods that I would prefer not to share at this time.

Jim

I am able to do so because I have spent 4+ decades examining the margins of thousands of genuine imperf and part perf stamps plus thousands of trimmed stamps. That is what a "trained eye" is, and how one acquires one. And I have been fortunate to have one of the foremost experts in first issues teach me during all this time (someone who has collected first issues exclusively for the past 55 years).

Last point:

You do know that I wasn't referring to myself, right?

Jim

I am sure you read my thread about the 3c 1851 thin paper stamp. The stamp was identified by Ashbrook and was also certed by PSE. Everybody got it wrong. Experience is good and even necessary but it will only help you with the facts.

Jim... yes.

I am sorry but, no, I have not.

I don't really collect postage stamps, sorry.

Jim

The post was meant for Bart, who does frequent the U.S. Classics forum. Your post managed to get in between.

Sinclair - Good Morning. I see that your expertise extends beyond graded stamps. Many thanks for sharing your insights.

Hence the importance of quoting the person you are replying to or putting in a salutation, such as "Sinclair -" as rogdcam did in the post above.

Avoids a lot of confusion and misinterpretation.

Revenuecollector - how do you do the quotes?

Been trying to figure that out for a while!

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Jim

The first stamp in the start of this thread and the second one I took from a post by revenuecollector on 11/27/16.Just to show the differences that's all.

Jim - thank you very much!

As it happens, I don't recall that particular thread, so I don't know why it relates. If you are implying that the past masters did not know everything, that is obviously true. That has little to do with a personal understanding of margins, or how various stamp paper is affected by being perforated, or what perforated or rouletted edges look like versus edges that have been cut with a scissors or a razor or a steel rule.

I contacted the seller of these revenues. He said he bought them from Apfelbaum and assumed that they were legitimate imperf revenues. I have no reason to believe that he is not being honest. He was also generous enough to loan the stamps to me for scanning. As was fairly obvious, the R92a shows remnants of about four perforation holes at upper left. Niether the R2a or the R32a show any evidence of perforation holes.