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Does Anyone Know Of Or Heard Of A Sc# 683 Inverted Center?

 
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Posted 12/25/2025   10:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add waynezach to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
683 inverted center, fact or fiction?

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Posted 12/25/2025   11:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Posted 12/25/2025   11:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add waynezach to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I just saw an inverted center 683 and it's a fake. Center was cut out and flipped!
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Posted 12/26/2025   05:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add drkohler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Occasionally, you can find Washington/Franklin stamps on ebay that have vignettes interchanged. creating "Bicolor W/F". Made by people, just for fun, with steady hands and way too much time.
More dangerous are/were the people that create fake inverts like the 1901 issues by rotating vignettes. I doesn't really surprise that someone did it with the 683 issue which has a "clean vignette" to rotate.
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There have been several threads here on homemade razor blade inverts. This one is 10+ years old. The bi-color examples are much more eye-catching.

https://www.stampcommunity.org/topi...&whichpage=1

And a creative cutting of a Hitler stamp in this thread:
https://goscf.com/t/49965
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Posted 12/26/2025   11:06 pm  Show Profile Check revenuecollector's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add revenuecollector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yep. I was going to post a separate thread about some recent acquisitions of these, but here seems like as good a place as any.

The 2 covers were part of an improper use lot I bough at Siegel earlier this year. While most reference these being created in the 1920s and 1930s, these covers are considerably later. It looks like a serviceman had plenty of time on his hands...

The card of stamps I picked up at Chicagopex last month. I'd not seen transposed vignettes on the winged globe airmails before.





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