On May 21, 3:59 am, "rodney" <pookiet...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Thank you Joshua,
> I understood it to be a facsimile.
>
> The great unwashed will never have the op****tunity
> to own such stamps, so I very much sup****t these
> reproductions, they look nice in the album, and I find
> no problem advertising the example as "facsimile"
> or "reproduction", to me they are the window you jump through
> to discover the story.
> Certainly better than a blank square :)
>
> Thanks for the additional information.
> Rod.
>
> "Joshua McGee"
>
> > Confederate state postmaster provisional. Scott US 47X1.
>
> > Reprints and counterfeits abound. Yours is almost certainly not
> > authentic. Real examples are on low quality, greyish acid paper, and
> > catalogue US$1,250. Yours looks like a red-on-white-paper reprint,
which
> > exists in both wove and laid varieties (unpriced).
Rodney:
More recent reprodoctions of the confederate stamps are more honest
and are stamped "reproduction" on the back. Lots of fun and
educational
for beginners.
Blair
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