Stamp Faker - Selling Unmarked Fakes

Here is another faker offering faked stamps that are sold as the real thing. Offerings include high value Great Britain, Austria, Falkland Islands, India and KUT items. Here are a few things to look for in his work - unused stamps sold as MNG (Mint No Gum); Perforations that are not correct for the stamp; paper that looks different from the paper used on the real thing; colors that seem a little different from the ral thing.
Here is a current example of a stamp that is virtually impossible to actually find. The India SERVICE overprint on the 1948 Gandhi set. Only 20 10R values were overprinted, so you will be lucky to ever even see one of the real ones, let alone buy one in an on-line auction.
So be careful of these items.

Who is the seller? Link?

Got it.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/william08052014/m.html

I'm glad I saw this thread. I was looking at the seller's Austria items this morning.

Dale

Telltale blurry photos

Not an expert or anything, but what make you think that what he sells are all fakes. I am looking at Austria Scott 127 YV.110 and cant really see much difference from any others. This is actually would be a very hard stamp to fake. I don't think seller has the capability to make them him self. If anything, seller just don't know that he sells fakes.

Look at his Sold items. He has sold multiple listings of many of these stamp. Same photo, same everything. Sold the Gandhi OP set three times, twice for $75. He is a scammer. S-c-a-m-m-e-r.

Still not quite convinced that the seller is a faker (selling very sophisticated fakes), or that the seller is knowledgeable of the fact that that the stamps are fakes.

rogdcam

Not that savvy with ebay. How can you see sold items by seller? I can only see feedback, not the items.

danko -
Go to the search box. Next to it, click on the "Advanced" link. Scroll down and check "sold listings." Next, scroll down where you see the box for "show only results from ..." Enter the seller's user id. This brings up the sold listings from the seller.

John

You can just look at the sellers list of all items for sale. On the left you can select "sold" to see only sold items. You can use the link I provided above to go directly there.

It's completely impossible for him to have sold mulitiple sets of that Gandhi "Service" set which is so rare. That's pretty clear proof these are fake/forged stamps.

He repeatedly offers for sale identical stamps even after selling some copies of those stamps.

He accepts fairly low offers for very highly-priced stamps.

The whiteness of the paper is blinding and that's incorrect.

The perfs look suspiciously odd and are too neat. They appear to have been made with a hollow needle in a sewing machine (common practice) rather than by a perforating machine. Look at how small each hole is compared to real perfs.

The centering on every single stamp is flawless. How likely is that?

He's an antique book dealer who just happens to have multiple copies of flawlessly printed rare stamps that are perfectly centered but always shown in very blurry photos for which he'll accept fairly low offers? I don't think so.

He's in Texas and appears to be violating federal laws, so it would be nice if someone could identify him and call the authorities.

rogdcam

Thanks a lot for the tip. Learn something new every day.

I see now. I concede. He is likely the faker and a poor one too. I also see that most of the fakes he sold are actually quite poor.

Which brings me to another question. How he managed to maintain 100% high positive feedback, when the fakes are quite obvious?

For example, he sold this Falkland Island stamp for $400

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184706093003

The stamp is clearly not engraved, and it doesn't even have a watermark. And this is clear as day. You can see it even on a blurry picture.

This is true for almost all the stamps he sold.

Are people buying his stamps this clueless? I mean, after they get the stamp they should definitely see that? You would think.

They are respecting him.

Good for the seller then

As long as there fools in this world some people don't need to work.

Another red flag is that ALL of his stamps currently for sale are all Mint, No Gum. I guess he is happy enough with his 'printing' process, but not happy with his regumming skills.

And, as people have pointed out, many of the engraved stamps don't look engraved.

ETA: Another red flag is that all of his sales are 'private listing'. Not all private listings are by bad guys (some highly respected sellers use it), but bad guys often sell with private listings.

How does this guy have 100% feedback?? Yeah, I know - I think that question is rhetorical/facetious.