"Dangerous Forgeries and How to Spot Them" with George James | Stampex 2021
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Stanley Gibbons has been purchasing dangerous forgeries and removing them from the philatelic market for over a century, and today holds one of the most comprehensive reference collections of forged stamps anywhere in the world.
Head of Commonwealth George James, supported by illustrations of some of the most dangerous examples, will show you what makes them so dangerous, how to spot them, and how this should affect your collecting habits.
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wow , I feel like I just binge watched a load of Hercules Poirot episodes... fascinating stuff. Thank you all presenters, more of this please
As a newbie, was shocked to find how common regumming is. Then realised that pre-WW2, virtually all mint stamps would have been hinged, because they had no other way. Only blocks would have escaped, if later separated. After a while, thought: is it really worth paying 3 or 4 times the price of a "lightly hinged" to get a "never hinged", when the latter could well be a regummed fake? Decided it isn't worth it for me, the front of the stamp is what matters so happy to get a mint light hinged (for 100 + year old stamps , of course) for a quarter the price and most likely genuine. Any 1840-1930 never hinged is "guilty until proven innocent", to my inexpert eyes! (and that will save money).
And after only a few months trawling EBay, you can see that there are sellers with mini-careers adding fake overprints and cancels. As this video says, if it's easy to to and adds value, someone will do it.
What got me onto this was fake UK postage stamps on Amazon. Why would you think about buying stamps on Amazon. !!!
On key indicators, re-gumming, I think his camera was reversed as his top and bottom in describing pictures is reversed and I noticed this a few other times. Fortunately his descriptions are so well stated that most viewers will figure it out. I am saying that his or this show flipped the pictures. But, this is a great video and thank you. I
want to know why they go to all the trouble on less expensive stamps to forge them? Ego? A game?
Excellent, truly excellent!
great video!
Thank you! This was very interesting.
I thought the forging of rarer British official stamps may have come up. I've seen quite a few on eBay where it looks as if the official overprint has been placed over the cancellation.
very interesting, maybe you might do a piece on GB machins one day
Sir very good information.Sir at a time how many minimum stamps forgers have to produce for breakeven ?
Interesting
Interesting video. Dude does need to work on the constant "umm's" while talking.
Very useful, this made me take another look at my own collection. Does anyone know if there’s a known forger called “RICHTER”, I have an 1840 2d blue with this name impressed in blue on the back. The cancel is 4 in a diamond, London I believe. What makes me suspicious is that the cancel is quite central and fairly heavy but also part of another cancel on the left of the stamp, just clipping but making that part of the cancel very heavy and could be hiding part of a Maltese Cross. Would be nice to know. I’ve Googled this and there are lots of high value stamps out there with this mark but nothing definitive about the origin.
Richter, if its a real signature and not forged, is a german expert who expertised stamps all over the world. So it could speak for the authenticity of the stamp
This could have been a great video. Very interesting topic and importent information to know. but, the guest speaker was hard to hear, do to poor accoustics (to much reverberent or echo) which made the sound muddy and unclear at times. But, I put up with it, because he had some really cool information. Then I start to notice, at around the 10 minute mark that he has this annoying habbit of saying "Umm" and or "Ahh" at the begining of every sentence. I had to bail out. That and the muddy sound was to much to take. P.S. I've read the comments below, and I found it very odd that no one mentioned this annoying speech habit, that went on and on. Strange indeed.
2 or 3 words and than "aaaaaa" again 2 or 3 words again "aaaa" hard to listen to so many " aaaaaaa" 😂😂
How many times did he say, aaaum, aaaa etc?
Each time he's lying about fake stamps to devaluing your collection & insinuating this experts knows more than we do hehehe don't forget to drink water and glowa boli -headaik expressions for what's happening in Britain 😅
Can't watch this nonsense 😭
Hehehe 1penny stamps someone built £1000000 factory man start to use brain 🧠 as is designed for not famous British tweaking forgettingischeang 😢
Huh?
Sound quality is bad on this video.
It's funny how many collectors spend a fortune on stamps, but can't afford more than $10 for the cheapest microphone possible!
Completely unwatchable. He constzntly skips over things and says he already covered it, the audio quality sounds worse than a ww1 field recording, and the "uhhhhhhhh" every 3rd word is so grating on my ears.
#1 stamps don't cover up just smeared fresh in Post office #2 shades spots are normal not copy of stamp Rembrandt l can paint & will look like original hehe