yes, this is a big problem for Canada Post, as I live in the area where the Counterfeits exist, I have put the hand on 2 different forgery stamps in the last year... (the Queen with the yellow hat and one of the "P" series) if some one is interested... I can scan them with the real stamps to show the differences.... the quality is poor under a magnifier and no marking on them...
normaly I scan the stamps to present them on the web but those stamps don't have the regular marquing so I have to use my electronic microscope combine with the UV lamp, I try but my microscope have a problem, I have to send it to repair....so, as soon as I receved it from repair, I will post these pictures... sorry for the dealy, hope to answerd soon... Jacques
Hi everybody, specialy Alyn, here is the picture I take with my scan
and with my microscope to show you the differences between one of this
conterfeit...
first: the stamps as we see them on cover...
after that I put them in my microscope on 10X
used my UV lamp to sho you the differences...
you see that the conterfeit don't have anny marking...
also look at the quality of ther printing
the conterfeit have a corse printing the detail is ruff....
Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy.. 22 Mar 2013 03:18:51am
re: Article on Counterfeit Canadian Stamps
NOT STAMPS but Currency.
Our local sheriff just busted a small gang that has figured out how to wash one dollar bills clean and then print Twenties on watermarked government paper that pass the black marker test and, of course, has the thin strands of blue and red silk fibers in the paper.
They are almost impossible to detect even by the average well trained teller.
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The past is a foreign country, they do things different there. 22 Mar 2013 02:44:46pm
re: Article on Counterfeit Canadian Stamps
Charlie:
More NOT STAMPS -
About two decades ago I read a poorly-written pocket novel about an "insider" heist of USA currency paper that, of course, was then used to print counterfeit large-denomination bills. National economical meltdown was only narrowly averted because some white-hat federal law-enforcement dude rode in to rescue America from a fate worse than death.
John Derry
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