Identifying the difference between a lithograph and offset print – or how I spotted few forgeries on spanish stamps
November 25th, 2009 admin
I was preparing some scans on unwanted (duplicate or mint) items for my stamp exchange website when I noticed few mint Spanish stamps that didn’t seem to fit into picture. The subnotes on stamp catalog confirmed my hunch- I had stumpled upon forgeries of somewhat common and cheap stamps. The original issues were printed using
Related Videos from Youtube
Tom Hoving's Last Interview-Forgeri...This was Thomas Hoving's last interview conducted with a Japanese Television station a few months before he died on December 10th, 2010. The subject was forgeries. He shares his thoughts on forgeries and passion for masterpieces.
Top Gear Classic Car Fakes & Fo...Top Gear Feature Circa 1992 About Classic Car Fakes & Forgeries, Including The Classic 'Mini Cooper S'.
Proof of Quran is a book of forgeri...Proof of Quran is a book of forgeries Sahih Bukhari Hadith 301 Narrated Zaid bin Thabit: Abu Bakr said (to me), "Umar has come to me and said, 'A great number of Qaris of the Holy Quran were killed on the day of the battle of Al-Yamama, and I am afraid that the casualties among the Qaris of the Quran may increase on the battle-fields whereby a large part of the Quran may be lost.' Therefore I consider it advisable that you (Abu Bakr) should have the Quran collected.' Narrated Zaid bin Thabit: I (Abu Bakr) said, 'How dare I do something which Allah's Apostle (SAW) did not do?' Umar said, 'By Allah, it is something beneficial.' Hadith 301. Narrated Zaid bin Thabit: Then I said (to Umar and Abu Bakr), "How can you do something which Allah's Apostle (SAW) did not do?" Abu Bakr said, "By Allah, it is something beneficial." As there is no divine sanction from God, Quran is no doubt a book of forgeries.
Gallery puts fakes and forgeries on...The British police have a department dedicated to cracking the sophisticated and potentially lucrative art forgery market. Their methods -- along with many seized works of art -- are on display at London's Victoria and Albert museum. Duration: 01:06.
Related Posts
The Samoa Times Express stamps are one of the most valued items in classical philately. So I was quite surprised to find the following stamp in 25€ mixture of old stamps I bought some time ago. As these stamps are much more common as reprints and forgeries than the real thing, I had very
Read More →
I’m doing some cleaning at my stamp room (again), and would like to try something new to make a better use of some obscure, seriously outdated (especially pricewise) but hopefully still useful specialized stamp catalogs… So here comes an exchange offer that is open to all readers of the blog: I’ll exchange my unwanted specialized...
Not all stamps are born equal. There can be lots of minor quality flux that fits into printers guidelines of acceptable variation and printing conditions. In addition there are all sorts of errors, freaks and oddities (like printers waste) that ends up one way or to another to stamp collectors albums. Print quality A common phenomena
Read More →
Lately I’ve been re-organizing my collection of German stamps, and decided to share something not so common with You once again. This is 110 pfennig commemorative stamp from 1998 series displaying German State Parliaments. I’ts a pretty unimpressive looking stamp on the first view with some short perfs and machine cancellation. But if...
for specialists : I have complied pdf reports of groups of kobans… maruichi and telegraph (denshin) cancels these are traded based on JSCA catalog ECV …. will exchange for FM cancels I need for my collection; or koban imitations … botas in particular. please enquire
Read More →
Last thursday I managed to get a copy of “Norma 2010 – a specialized catalog of Finland postage stamps” from nearby public library. So I decided share yet another short catalog review. Some background In short, there are two major stamp catalogs in Finland – LaPe and Norma. Both have very long backgrounds with annual editions....
Though the re-design of Stamp Collecting Blog was only few weeks back, I’m already going to push some more changes into the pipeline. More than anything, the following try to fix few issues I’m not fond of. I don’t know what I was thinking when making a decision to place stamp exchange summaries as separate
Read More →
During the Christmas season and New Year I did have a blast with German definitive stamps. Very likely one of the most notorious of these is the Five-year-plan (“5-J-Pl.”) issues of German Democratic Republic (more commonly know as East Germany or DDR) which shows “the common men and woman at work”. Despite of
Read More →
This is possibly one of the topics I wish I would never have to experience or write. But here I am typing this… Today’s mail brought me few exchange letters that were way off from my usual stamp exchange. After some digging I managed to find out that somebody had entered my details as
Read More →
Spain has issued a stamp in honor of Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, one of the most prolific and important actors in the history of Spanish interpretation. Lopez Vazquez was born in Madrid. During his life, he starred in more than 200 movies, filming several full-length films in a year. In 1971, he acted in a record 11 films. Although he usually appeared...
Related Tweets from Twitter
|
BibleAlsoSays (I AM THAT I AM!) : @lostbooksbible John was written by many people it was added to. There are layers of interpolations and forgeries in John. John is a fraud.. Updated : 2010-09-07T02:47:42Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
cortsims (Cort Sims) : The Irrelevant King and soulless forgeries #archaeology http://tinyurl.com/289z96q.. Updated : 2010-09-07T02:11:08Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
ctznjournalist (ctznjournalist) : Border Control / Suspension of belief: There were also suspicions of forgeries by Jewish land dealers and settlers... http://bit.ly/9oLWhm.. Updated : 2010-09-06T23:50:35Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
just_joe_scibbe (Joseph Scibbe) : How to tell my updates from @rsofie's forgeries: my updates come from selective tweets not directly through f-book #fb.. Updated : 2010-09-06T17:33:45Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
|
BibleAlsoSays (I AM THAT I AM!) : @JoeTheMailman Yeah, John is the Gospel most filled with later insertions and forgeries,the most tampered with to tone down its gnosticism.. Updated : 2010-09-06T17:09:50Z | Reply | View Tweet |
Related News from Digg
Leave a comment
| Trackback
