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All Forums Category: US Stamps and Covers Discussions Forum: US Back of Book

Obviously Fake Narcotic Overprint Going For Some Serious Money On Ebay

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1738 Posts

Posted 04/07/2018 2:02 pm

This is an example of several buyers assuming that what they are bidding on is genuine, without checking any references at all, including just Googling "RJA28" and comparing the images against this one.

Kind of exciting to watch and see how high the auction is going to go!

Jim

https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-stamps-....m1438.l2649

Genuine overprint:

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United States

1738 Posts

Posted 04/07/2018 2:16 pm

Wow.

The final price was $195 more than I was willing to pay for this.

Jim

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Posted 04/07/2018 2:25 pm

Ouch, right leg of "R" is easy to see the different font.

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Posted 04/07/2018 5:38 pm

Yes, you can really see that the "R" is different.
Do you think the buyer has any clue about this?

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Posted 04/07/2018 6:00 pm

Quote:
Do you think the buyer has any clue about this?

The only buyer that had a clue was r**p with a $4 bid.

The other four bidders probably got hypnotized with the "cv $1250" in the item title and thought that they were getting a "bargain."

Jim

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Posted 04/08/2018 3:40 pm

A tough stamp to find when genuine, but this was is a fake. Not known unused, ink color for the provisional provisional is wrong, and so is the overprint font and set up.

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Posted 04/08/2018 9:14 pm

Actually $202.50 more than I was willing to pay for this piece of trash.

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