{"id":764,"date":"2011-03-18T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2011-03-18T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T16:37:08","slug":"digital-forgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Digital Forgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought some lots on Delcampe that I thought looked promising. One item is this block of four.<\/p>\n

Here is the image the seller put on Delcampe.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What do you think? I was in a hurry and made a bet, looking forward to study the cancel. After receiving and washing the item I made this scan.<\/p>\n

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I did not like what I saw anymore. The dark black cancel fragment at the bottom looks fake and the ink of the overprints is looking odd. The gray cancel is not readable.<\/p>\n

I high resolution scan (2400 dpi) provided more insight.<\/p>\n

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This definitely looks wrong. I think this is a digital copy of an overprint. Compare the four overprints. They look absolutely identical. I guess I need to check more carefully before I bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought some lots on Delcampe that I thought looked promising. One item is this block of four. Here is the image the seller put on Delcampe. What do you think? I was in a hurry and made a bet, … 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":[4,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11E12-ck","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}