PhilaStore 19 Aug 2018 09:48:27am | re: German Colonies
The overprints on both stamps are fake, those overprints don't exist like that.
You also can see that the overprints was applied on a used stamp, the cancellation is under the overprint
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Jansimon
22 Aug 2018 02:19:00am
Auctions - Approvals | re: German Colonies
I have never seen "overprints" like these before, but I regularly come across all kinds of fantasy overprints on German stamps, especially World War two and aftermath items.
Sometimes it is obvious that these were done with a modern inkjet printer, but still people buy these. And that's why some creative souls keep inventing new ones.
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cdj1122
Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy.. 26 Aug 2018 02:06:01pm | re: German Colonies
" ... but I regularly come across all kinds of fantasy overprints on German stamps, especially World War two and aftermath items. ..."
Some such fabrications were meant to deceive others.
But often a collector will tire of seeing an open space
on an album page and decide to create something
just to fill the space. The interesting thing is that
over time, they can completely deceive themselves
about the stamp's provenance.
This self-deception also occurs with such things as
war stories (e.g. Normandy Landings June 6th, 1944.)
and events like the number of eyewitnesses who were
in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, 1963, or the WTC Plaza
on September 11th, 2001.
I have been intrigued by this phenomenon for many years,
often noting the sincerity that people exhibit when
telling stories that are obviously embellished,
if not completely fabricated.
A page of stamps with spaces completely filled,
may be so much more satisfying to the owner that he,
or she, could blur the origin of the slightly bogus overprint,
after all, the stamp itself is genuine.
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