Expertizing Mark On Syria Classic (106c)?

As a Big Blue collector, and after many years of searching, I was pleased to pick up an ever-elusive Syria 106c, the (in)famous error overprint, on Delcampe. Looking at the reverse, I noticed an interesting marking in the lower right corner. Any ideas as to what it might be? I was thinking perhaps an expertizing mark, but no idea.

Scanning this list of expert marks shows a "VR" (Victor Robert) as a possible answer, but this looks more like a "VK" to me, although perhaps the top of the R never transferred? https://www.filatelia.fi/experts/areass.html

Appreciate any thoughts/insights!

If you want sound advice ----Package up that stamp and ship it to Floortrader-Florida with your copy of the invoice and you would get a no questions asked refund .Trying to help you out .

It could be a ownership mark . Nice find ,a stamp I been looking for .

It could be an expertizing mark, but could also just be an owner's mark. In Europe back in the last century it was customary to mark stamps, especially if trying to sell them in circuit books


Peter

Unusual that the ovpt. reads so well from the back.

Interesting - I wasn't familiar with the concept of an owner's mark before. Thanks.

perf12 - are the overprints usually less legible from the back?

Please show us the front as well. Thank you.

Sure thing:

This thread made my day. By way of a little background, this stamp is the most difficult space to fill in the Scott International Volume 1 ("Big Blue"). As an error, it has no business being in the album. It was also in the Brown International where it didn't belong, either. Fortunately, for collectors' sanity, the variety disappeared when Scott created the Specialty album pages for Syria.

And, if anyone ever finds a used copy, I hope you will post that find.

There is also a postage due (Chiffre Tax) stamp SC J31 2.50 instead of 3pi on 50c.

Congratulations!

Thanks! Definitely feels good to have one of the harder spaces filled.

Maury - from a few years ago - prices this at €80 mint. What are Americans actually paying for it?

There is one mint on delcampe Italy for 40 euros.

Interesting. I enjoy French colonial stamps, and I'd certainly keep this if I picked one up, but I shouldn't go out of my way to get one.

GeoffHa, interesting - both Scott and Y&T value it $200+ both mint and used. Probably of middling interest to many, but as 1840to1940 pointed out, for the folks out there trying to complete the Scott International 1840-1940 album (see http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com), it's probably the hardest stamp of the 30,000+ to acquire as the album editors (mistakenly?) gave a space for it in the album despite it being a rather obscure error that comes on the market infrequently.

It's not the most expensive in terms of CV - I think that honor goes to US Scott #2, which is actually absent in my version of the album.