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I was picking thru my duplicates and found these 2 in the glassine for USA 2842 $9.95 Moon Landing.
The one on the left seems to be a 2842, but what about the one on the right? The one on the right is smaller size and die cut not perforated. I didn't see anything in the Scott catalog under 2842 about there being a similar stamp with same design. Help!
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Well if you had access to 8.5x11 sheets of die-cut self stick blank stamp sheets. You could scan an original and probably make replicas as good or better than the original which was a half tone process that any laser printer can duplicate.
However, I have never seen such blank die cut sheets. Doesn't mean they don't exist.
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Just thought of something... if it is a fake, I wonder if the cancel is fake too, or if it actually made a trip thru the postal system?
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Vending machine stamp?
Note that USPS has duplicated designs (Christmas stamps come to mind) for their vending machines.
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Good thought, Tom - but these were only sold in panes of 20 from sheets of 120.
I believe the smaller stamp shown to be a counterfeit stamp.
As such, quite interesting.
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Modern Printers, readily available, can produce remarkably similar bogus stamps that easily pass through diligence-shy postal systems. Fake perforations and phosphor tagging increases the challenge.
Special die cuts within the vignette are an added security as is routinely done on Machin stamps.
A few years back, when Nigerian Princes used the mails to conduct their illicit business, I collected a page of examples, of the Nigerian "stone bridge" stamp from almost genuine looking to the pathetically laughable. All were postally used from the mail system.
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I had a bunch of pre-stamped envelopes from the 1980s that I never used because the stamp image looked like it could have easily been a sketchy photocopy.
But then I started using them last year, and no problems.
I wonder how easy it is to put bogus stamps through the system?
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"I wonder how easy it is to put bogus stamps through the system?"
With the new matrix stamps from Great Britain probably very difficult indeed, each matrix identifies a particular stamp, which presumably is logged by the system as having been used, therefore being rejected if second usage is tried.
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Like all those rolls of brand new Forever Stamps being sold on eBay and other sites?
I understand those are all Chinese countergfeits.
You'd have to wonder who would have thousands of rolls of brand new stamps to sell cheap?
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It would certainly be an interesting item to own....would make a good exhibit page!
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Hi all,
I was picking thru my duplicates and found these 2 in the glassine for USA 2842 $9.95 Moon Landing.
The one on the left seems to be a 2842, but what about the one on the right? The one on the right is smaller size and die cut not perforated. I didn't see anything in the Scott catalog under 2842 about there being a similar stamp with same design. Help!
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re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
Well if you had access to 8.5x11 sheets of die-cut self stick blank stamp sheets. You could scan an original and probably make replicas as good or better than the original which was a half tone process that any laser printer can duplicate.
However, I have never seen such blank die cut sheets. Doesn't mean they don't exist.
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re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
Just thought of something... if it is a fake, I wonder if the cancel is fake too, or if it actually made a trip thru the postal system?
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re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
Vending machine stamp?
Note that USPS has duplicated designs (Christmas stamps come to mind) for their vending machines.
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re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
Good thought, Tom - but these were only sold in panes of 20 from sheets of 120.
I believe the smaller stamp shown to be a counterfeit stamp.
As such, quite interesting.
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10 Jun 2022
10:04:55am
re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
Modern Printers, readily available, can produce remarkably similar bogus stamps that easily pass through diligence-shy postal systems. Fake perforations and phosphor tagging increases the challenge.
Special die cuts within the vignette are an added security as is routinely done on Machin stamps.
A few years back, when Nigerian Princes used the mails to conduct their illicit business, I collected a page of examples, of the Nigerian "stone bridge" stamp from almost genuine looking to the pathetically laughable. All were postally used from the mail system.
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re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
I had a bunch of pre-stamped envelopes from the 1980s that I never used because the stamp image looked like it could have easily been a sketchy photocopy.
But then I started using them last year, and no problems.
I wonder how easy it is to put bogus stamps through the system?
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re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
"I wonder how easy it is to put bogus stamps through the system?"
With the new matrix stamps from Great Britain probably very difficult indeed, each matrix identifies a particular stamp, which presumably is logged by the system as having been used, therefore being rejected if second usage is tried.
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re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
Like all those rolls of brand new Forever Stamps being sold on eBay and other sites?
I understand those are all Chinese countergfeits.
You'd have to wonder who would have thousands of rolls of brand new stamps to sell cheap?
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re: Scott USA 2842 and imposter?
It would certainly be an interesting item to own....would make a good exhibit page!
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