How Not To Forge Classic US Stamp Varieties

Dear Forger,

When faking a double-grill variety on an 1861 3-cent stamp, please avoid placing said grill on an OG #64 Pink with "hing remains".

It won't add value, even in Canada, I promise.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/United-Sta...AOSwvthf51zN




Sincerely,
Guy Laughingatyou

#64, the "pink" variety of this stamp, catalogues at $1000 used and much more unused, so what's going on here? Did someone add a grill a grill to an expensive stamp and ruin it?

Or is the humor related to adding a grill to a stamp that had normally had no grill?

Or is it that the hinge remnants got "grilled" in the process of making up the fake grill?

Or is it something else? Lots of altered stamps get posted here, but often they're not explained -- which you'd think would be the whole point of posting them. I appreciate these posts very much since they help me learn more, but without the explanation they're useless. Could I suggest that a simple explanation be added when such stamps are posted? It would really help.

It is not a Scott 64. The grill (see scan of back) is very fake.

This stamp was discussed recently on Richard Frajola's message board. Someone posted pics of the back and front of the stamp and asked for identification info. After responses indicated that neither of the two grills were genuine, the OP asked if he should just discard the stamp and was advised to instead donate it to the APS Reference Collection.

"donate to APS" does kinda sound like "sell on ebay"...........

the Frajola Board discussion occurred after this thread started. The seller has ended the listing on ebay.