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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https://www.hipstamp.com/listing/bohemia-moravia-b19-auschwitz-overprint-og-nh-u-m-f-vf-beautiful-gum/41091764
They could be selling fake overprints with a Star of David and "juden" :
https://www.hipstamp.com/listing/great-britain-1-1-2p-guernsey-overprint-used-vf-sound/40549488
I do not want to say that someone snookered into that Guernsey fake got what he deserved, but I just wish that folks trying to be serious about stamps could bother to do the basic legwork and educate themselves.
Then there's also the issue of all the nazi fandom out there, folks so enamored of the crap that they'll gleefully buy anything with a swastika on it. I saw them in historical wargaming, I saw them in plastic modeling, here they are in stamps, and I won't get political but you know I could, what do you do with such folk?
Only few Swastikas overprints were genuinely used by the German Post during Third Reich era: Sudetenland,some local stamps from Bohemia & Moravia and one set from Generalgouvernement (Poland).
See some genuine stamps with Swastika ovpt.
Condition: BEAUTY, BELLA, BELLE, SCHÖN Beauty, Bella, Belle, Schön
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...
On a serious note, I asked the seller again to demonstrate where the overprint annotations are for this particular issue exist. Let's see.
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