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Cdvs With Counterfeit Revenue Stamps

 
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Posted 05/25/2018   12:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add RevHound to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I saw these on ebay recently. The revenue stamps on these CDVs are obvious counterfeit, and not very good counterfeits at that. They are crudely made, but seemed to be tied to the CDV with various cancels. Does anyone have any information on these? Are they modern day creations?




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Posted 05/25/2018   12:27 pm  Show Profile Check revenuecollector's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add revenuecollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Bogus modern fabrications, I would say. If you look at them under a glass, are they solid 1-color ink, or CMYK inkjet or laser creations? It looks like there's a screening pattern, perhaps offset printed if solid color.

What about the CDVs themselves, are they genuine? The backstamps look genuine from the images.
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Posted 05/25/2018   12:39 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add RevHound to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, the CDVs are real.
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I would agree that these are a crude fabrication. As to why someone would do such a thing, I will tell a story that happened in the late 1980's or possibly in the very early 1990's. I was recruited by a dealer who was going to SESCAL the same weekend as SEPAD (in the Philadelphia area). He was going to split his stock and had his secretary bring the stock to the show and I was to mind the booth for him. The reason for this was that he didn't want to give up his table at SEPAD in subsequent years. One of the show attendees asked me if I had bulk lot of 2¢ First Issue stamps. As it turns out, I didn't, but I asked why he was looking for lot of the 2¢ stamps. He told me that he did Civil War shows and that checks sold much better when they had stamps on them!

Perhaps more relevant to the photos in this thread, on another occasion I was working for Eric Jackson at a New York show and a shoebox of photos walked up to Eric's booth. Okay, a person brought the shoebox to the booth. In any case I went through the photos and based on the dates of the cancels, fully one third of the stamps were add-ons. The stamps, however, were genuine, unlike those in the scans which started this thread.

Those persons out there who wish to fool us with their fabrications have seemingly always been around.
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I have similar "facsimiles" of Postcards of the Titanic,
After many years of head scratching, it was suggested to me to be part of
the giveaways and promotion of the Movie, Titanic.
The stuff that was used in the foyer of the movie theatres.

The stamps on the PC's were of identical printing appearance to your cards.

I have adopted the term "Faux Postcards" to these.






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