Another Find That Is A High Dollar Win, Or A Dud.

As mentioned in another post, I bought an album online and I have gotten some good legit stamps out of it. On the other hand I got a 319 that was trimmed to be a 322 and that was spotted quickly by one of our great moderators and others.

I have another one...this is supposed to be a Confederate States of America General Issue number 10. My catalogue says its supposed to be worth $5500. I'm having my doubts as I think its a counterfeit. Not only was there a number 10, there was also numbers 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 6, 8, 9a, 11, 13a, and 14. Now one might think I bought the album because these stamps were in it, that would be far from it. I didn't even know they were in the album because they were on the last page and I didn't look at them.

So here is the stamp I question, what say you...

Search this forum for Confederate Facsimiles and you will find a lot of information. For example https://goscf.com/t/30585 or https://goscf.com/t/58667

It was quite popular for stamp dealers in the early days to sell reproductions of expensive Confederate stamps to allow collectors to fill the empty spaces in their albums. These were not intended to deceive collectors, they were (usually) sold with the clear understanding that they were facsimiles.

Aside from the poor printing quality, you can tell that yours is a reprint because the genuine copy of #10 will have continuous frame lines across the entire sheet of stamps, not ending short at each corner, like all of the lines in your example.

See the continuous lines between each stamp in this genuine strip from Siegel Auction Galleries, for example:

@Zebraman...Thanks for the links, very interesting. I think what I will do with them, is add them to my collection with "Facsimile" written next to them. One of the things about the ones I have is they look so poorly printed, the paper doesn't look old and the paper is the same on all of them. In short they just didn't look right. Also, interesting about the continuous line on the genuine ones, that would certainly be a tell tale sign. I would be interested when they were printed, if it was in the 30's that would be pretty cool.

Joannehasstamps. A suggestion for future new threads that you create is to use a title that better matches what you are posting. This is so future searches will better find your post. So a better title may have been something like:

Confederate Stamp, real or fake?

Or

10 cent Confederate stamp. Help identify.

Just my thoughts.

Quite a few replicas of Confederate Currency and Stamps were printed during the early 1960s for the Centennial of the War Between the States as were cap guns and flags.

Thank you Partime, I will try to do better.

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