Perforation Anomaly On Mongolian Stamp

Thanks for the confirmation. I was really wondering if the market for fakes was strong at auction. The genuine covers Russia/Mongol do quite well. I am glad I purged the fake overprint from my collection.

You are welcome Randy. Your sharing of knowledge has made me follow Mongolia closely when it comes up for sale. Interesting stuff. Golden Oak just had a Scott 22 for sale if indeed it was real. It did not sell and I believe that it opened at around $100.

Fake. Letters too thick. S slant off. Horizontal part of T slanted. G & E not right. No cert. Not signed.

Yes that Mongolia Sc 23a Sandafayre has been trying to unload for a year or more is a fake.

A third used copy to go along with the one mint copy so far.

A second mint copy.

Congratulations Randy. You are for cornering the market!

What is the opinion on this "Scott 22"?

I have just the one used copy I purchased earlier. These additional copies are not mine just showing for reference.

The "Scott 22" pictured above is a fine example of a genuine violet overprint with a red revenue cancellation.

Nice looking stamp.

With the 60 mung stamp, I wonder how many more will come to market. I have always thought that as the Russia/Eastern Europe and to some extent China/Mongolia, more copies of the 150's and earlier stamps will appear--due to the availability of these stamp in the Soviet Union and satellites. Mongolia in the 50's was almost entirely nomadic but certainly there was a government and there was a small upper party class. Students were studying in the Soviet Union and other places. Some of them certainly were stamp collectors. The weather in Mongolia is actually pretty decent for keeping stamps, not a lot of humidity, lots of cold weather. . . and if stamps were kept in an apartment in Ulaanbaatar as opposed to a ger (Mongolia word is ger, Russian is yurt) I think there' a reasonable chance they survived. There are ebay dealers based out of Mongolia, I have never bought from theme, but they do have older stamps occasionally. I would love to see an old Russian Communist Party member's world collection at auction, that would be something to see.

Jackie

Not sure if you saw this Russian Post Offices in Mongolia auction (covers):

https://oldbid.com/auctions/russian...=auctionLots

Overall the prices in the Siegel Mongolia auction were strong. Prices for the listed "unpriced" imperf pairs of the Soyombo issue quite high. A rare revenue stamp a beauty went for $130,000. The mint set of the "key" issue Sc 82 did very well at $3500 tying the price for the superior gum set sold in Germany at the same price. The used set of the Sc 82 sold poorly. Sometimes "used" don.t get no respect" especially with so much other quality material.

I purchased this 1932 unissued rare mysterious stamp. I have seen two others and this is the best of the three. I had pricing on the other two so I bid. A claim has been floating around that this is a newspaper stamp but no one knows.

Randy - Thanks for the skinny on the Siegel sale. I missed it and was curious as to how it went. What are the plans for your purchase?