Are WW2 stamps with Swastika and Hammer-and-sickle overprints (and concentration camp names) fake?
BOHEMIA & MORAVIA B19 AUSCHWITZ OVERPRINT OG NH U/M F/VF BEAUTIFUL GUM was $25
$9.383 bids2 days, 7h
Bohemia & Moravia B19 Auschwitz Overprint OG NH U/M
$9.383 bids2 days, 7h
Bohemia & Moravia B19 Auschwitz Overprint OG NH U/M
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But also why I want everyone to know how to identify the fakes from the genuine. My philatelic crusade is exactly that: give power to people to understand how not to get taken advantage of. There's nothing in the world I hate more than being taken advantage of...
I politely asked him about the veracity and opened the possibility by pointing out why some of the items he was listing were suspect and even fake. This is the response. He has two stores -stampspacific and saljm
Me: "Do you have a catalogue or reference number? Is this authentic or a "Cinderella" creation recently created for folks to collect? The perforations seem to be larger than those gauges typically used in German material of the 1930's. Also any watermarks? Again, the NSDAP partisans loved watermarks. It is also unusual to use the Hakkencruz or swastika alone without the Teutonic eagle. And except for war heros , Hitler rarely, if ever , allowed other party leaders prominent images. All this to say, this is highly suspect as authentic."
Stampspacific/ saljm ( he uses two sites and toggles)
"To educate the ignorant, I have the stamps certified, they were printed on recycled paper hence the thickness and NOT issued by the government printing in Berlin or Vienna...a lot of 3rd reich dont have watermarks, so my point here, you should join the Biden regime since you are so bright? I have more info but you arent worth sending it when you harass sellers with your genius...stick to building blocks and paper planes....I have blocked you and warned a few sellers of your tactics to scam them..."
(by the way, I only contacted him once).
So my conclusion is that this individual KNOWS what he is doing is wrong. I will let you all decide. By the way, I hope that we can somehow respond constructively to folks who traffic in fake Nazi memorabilia ,if out of respect for the millions of victims of this truly evil regime.
In other side these 2 Hitler stamps were issued in 1943...5 years late of the genuine ovpts.
As I have stated before half of the overprints from this seller are fantasy and the other half are fake created very recently.
Nice day to all
Carlos Santana
I believe there was a recent thread about them.
Many years ago, when I was still young and skinny, I met a dealer at a show who was displaying his collection of bogus and faked nazi material. He said that if real, it would be worth $50,000, just what was in front of me. He spoke a little about how endemic fake German stuff was, and I knew then that it just wasn't for me.
I recommend you try to contact the seller in order to return these fake stamps and get your money back....in case the seller refuse the return you have a second option that is to file a claim with Paypal
I have a few of these that came in a collection. We make a point of not selling FAKES, so that this doesn't get perpetuated. Forgeries and Counterfeits sold as such are fine, and have philatelic significance (or can have) but fakes are just fakes.
Now my comments from the other post aren't visible here...
The best thing to do is research the dealers you are buying from. Are they "sellers" or "dealers". I make a specific distinction here. Are the knowledgeable of the material they have listed, or are they just listing with a "sale amount" and hoping people will buy it? Are their front and back images of the material, and enough of a title and description that fully ID's the item (including the type of overprint, if there is such an application).
Is the dealer an affiliated member of the material they are selling (i.e. APS, JPS, philatelic societies, and more importantly, selling bodies like ASDA (American Stamp Dealers Association). These members MUST follow ethical rules, or be banned from those bodies, and hence demonstrating their lack of credibility. Check out who you buy from, find good, trustworthy dealers, and then stick with them. Everyone makes a mistake once in a while, but if you find significant numbers of poorly described and/or mis-described material, then that's a bad sign. "Look before you leap".