{"id":361,"date":"2010-09-06T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T09:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2010-09-15T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T11:03:57","slug":"fake-philately-for-the-children-benefit-overprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Fake Philately for the Children Benefit Overprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is on ebay and from a seller named diletant2002 who is located in Israel. So far every overprinted stamp I have seen offered by him was forged.<\/p>\n

Have a look at the cancel. Two things spring to mind: the date is in a completely different ink and style and the impression of cancel itself looks wrong. Just like being made with a printer. All lines (outer and inner circle) have the same proportions (thickness). That is not so with the genuine cancel. Besides, the cancel on this stamp is from the pre-soviet time. I don’t think they used Zsar cancels in 1929.<\/p>\n

The seller writes:<\/p>\n

“Since I do not collect or know much about such items, I cannot guarantee that these item are genuine so low starting and sold as is. No refund!!!”<\/p>\n

I guess thats kind of fair.<\/p>\n

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This is on ebay and from a seller named diletant2002 who is located in Israel. So far every overprinted stamp I have seen offered by him was forged. Have a look at the cancel. Two things spring to mind: the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11E12-5P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}