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Legitimate Imperf Revenues?

 
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Posted 08/27/2018   8:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add steve123 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I bought a lot of used revenues and most are identifiable as legitimate imperforates, part perfs and perfs. However, I am concerned with a few.

The ones below were all hinged on an "imperforate" page of the album pages.

Opinions?

R32a, R33a, R19a and R43a

- I think that R43 has enough border top and bottom to be R43a
- R32 looks legit?
- R19 is questionable, the same as R33

Thank you for your thoughts.





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Posted 08/27/2018   9:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The 25 cent bond was probably a part perf (cat $6.75) that was trimmed (imperf $300). The others are trimmed perforated stamps. They are all the wrong shade to begin with.
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Posted 08/27/2018   9:50 pm  Show Profile Check revenuecollector's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add revenuecollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
R43 - trimmed part perf.
R19 - very tight margins; color is good but now way to know for sure if legit.
R33 - color and cancel all wrong; definitely fake
R32 - plausible; could be legit; don't like the raggedness of the left margin though... hard to tell against that background.

EDIT: Bart, without seeing in hand, I don't know that we can say the color of the R19 and R32 are the wrong shade. Comparing to legit examples I have, the impressions look right; the color could be skewed slightly... the shades are very close to legit. I still don't necessarily like those 2, but not because of the color.

For comparison. Note that on the R32, most examples I've imaged recently, exhibit less yellow and more deep blue than that shown in this image and the one above. I'd bet that if I re-imaged mine it would be a different shade, the point being that it could be the scanning.



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Edited by revenuecollector - 08/27/2018 10:01 pm
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Color is way off on both 10 cent stamps, as is impression. Color and impression is also off on the 3 cent; the vertical margins look terrible as well.
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The R33 and R43 are egregious and obvious. The other two on COLOR ALONE not as clear cut, however have other negative attributes.
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Posted 08/27/2018   10:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add revcollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Your three cent is significantly darker and the impression is significantly different. The ten cent is a much brighter blue and a much sharper impression. Those three stamps are faked from perforated stamps.
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Posted 08/28/2018   7:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add steve123 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you all for your expertise and time, it is well taken and heeded.
All the best,
Steve
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