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Posted 04/02/2025   08:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Laurie 02 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi all I have a #65 that I think is a #64b.
It's a great looking stamp, but I'm in Australia and I'd like to get a certificate for it if it is a genuine #64b who can I send it to?
Cheers
Lawrence
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Posted 04/02/2025   08:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If you post a good scan of the front and back, I'm sure you'll get some comments and suggestions.
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Posted 04/02/2025   08:44 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Highly recommended if your stamp is a candidate.

https://ceremuga.net/
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Posted 04/02/2025   08:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wtcrowe to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
An expert of several areas, but not US philately. AIEP experts are permitted to issue certificates only for their areas of expertise. Below is his listing on the AIEP website:

Australian Commonwealth including New Guinea and Papua: stamps; Poland and related areas (including Central Lithuania, Western Ukraine): stamps; 1914-23: British & Allied occupation overprints (especially of German Colonies): stamps.
Expert since:
1994

AIEP member since:
2001
Royal Philatelic Society, London; Bund Deutscher Philatelisten; American Philatelic Society and many other specialised Societies, Study Circles and Arbeitsgemeinschaften.
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Posted 04/02/2025   08:55 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Laurie 02 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I should add it's US Stamp, I'll post a pic in the morning
Thank you all for your replies so far.
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Australia
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Posted 04/03/2025   9:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Laurie 02 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is the picture

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Posted 04/03/2025   10:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Can you add a SCAN of the back?
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Posted 04/03/2025   11:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Laurie 02 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
i didn't have enough DOF in the camera so I got my scanner working...after 5 or 6 years lol




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Posted 04/03/2025   11:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Laurie 02 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
one of the nicer centered #65's I've seen
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Posted 04/05/2025   12:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add essayk to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That's a very attractive stamp. Nice. But your problem was not the DOF of the camera, it is that you did not have the focal plane parallel to the surface of the stamp (tried to hand hold it maybe?). The scanner gave you a better result when you could "park" the camera as well as the stamp.


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Posted 04/05/2025   6:16 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Laurie 02 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Probably right but if I had a higher f stop more would be in focus.
Doesn't matter now my scanner is now working!
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