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Only Blind Freddy would pay even a penny for that torn thing.

Maybe its 1000 quid as its actually a rare unissued stamp paying tribute to Ben Kingsley.

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vikingarch is welcomed as a full member of the club. USD 3,775 or BIN USD 5,250 for these'



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Deutsches-Re ... 2ebda0dfe4



Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Must be the "NM" classification ... don't think I've seen that before.

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Collecting Greater New Guinea & Macropods (Kangaroos & Wallabies).

I guess it is worth the USD 250 or BIN USD 1000 since it is a handmade album... never mind the stamps.




http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nice-handmade-s ... 3375275f58

I wonder if it's a Chinese or German excercise book

Michael

Can't be a Chinese book, they supposedly don't get browned the way those pages are...but if it were German the whole thing would be falling apart.

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Now relisted at GBP 25,000, half the original asking price.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stamp-collect ... 416541d449

Seven or eight more listings, halving the price each time should get it down to a realistic price.

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Oh My! matt240_6 has these classics on sale for a starting bid of only AUD 700

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/KGV-stamps-/ ... 4d00de97ab





I can hardly wait. This could be fun for weeks to come.

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

And the wait is over. For AUD 1,000 you get these gems from matt240_6:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/KVG-2d-/3307 ... 4d00de8d45





That is only AUD 333.33 each. The snipers will be lining up for this lot!

Well, ALL 3!

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Okay, first off enjoying the thread although I admit to only reading the first 2 pages and the last 3. The bit I have read has me howling.

I have had to educate the boyfriend about stamps in the last bit. He is a bit of a generalist when it comes to collecting and sometimes I think he collects things just because. I don't know, however jJust becasue it is old he thinks it is valuable. This may be true with some things, i.e. anitque furniture this is definitely not true with stamps.

I hate to say it, but he would be one of the people that would have fallen for one or two of those listings, at least until I met him that is.

Anyway, please keep them comming, I need a laugh now and then.

If you never read anything else, you really ought to look at Page 5 of this thread (from about 3/4's of the way down through pretty much all of page 6. Dreamer of the Century.

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=379&start=200

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Thanks... will do!

This Dreamer summed up the fate of 99.9% of the material showcased in this thread.

(Not to mention that even sane people rarely put it up for sale in the first place, as "we" know you can't move it at any price to informed collectors. At a flea market to non-collectors though... "Wowwww, look, stamps with Hitler on them! And this one has a face value of 100,000! This dealer doesn't know what he has, offering these for only five bucks")

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If you rip the corners off these stamps, do they get to pass as line perfs?

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A man might as well marry ... if he finds a good wife he will be happy ... if not, he will become a philosopher.
Collecting Greater New Guinea & Macropods (Kangaroos & Wallabies).

@fromdownunder, you are right... it was priceless!

As line perf 1d Greens they would be unique...all 3 of them.

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Hawthorn - AFL Premiers 1961, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2008.

Both the Geo V lots have been withdrawn as "no longer available", the same day they were listed. Who got to him?

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

ozyon12 has this beauty currently listed at BIN AU$2,700 or make offer.



They state in listing "Special Polska stamp. Kept in my stamp collection for over 30 years. Features in many expos"

I am not an expert in Polish stamps but would love to know what expos it has been featured in!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Polska-collector-stamp-Black-corrective.......1e6dcf9470

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John

Straight out of the o2ke marketing guide, who is offering another utterly worthless Polish stamp for AUD 3,145 or BIN AUD 3590

o2ke has graced this thread on many occasions, and has an interesting take on the english language,.



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BLACK-correc ... 1c26942ef3



And an earlier discription, if that's the term I'm groping for, in one of his many failed attepts to sell this stamp:



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BLACK-correc ... 1c262da2d4

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

This one is more "cute" but needs posting here because of one statement. From seller biff1918, and for USD 1,499 we get this.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ELVIS-PRESLE ... 43af74b4b6





How many Elvis stamps were sold? 124,700,000 , so I suspect that 2,520 will not do a whole lot of cornering. And he wants double face for stamps which are essentially postage fodder.

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Today's Oh My! moment. For EUR 3,500 you too can have this choice selection from eBay "seller" roma355



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/US-stamps-Fr ... 231ce4d5ee

If that one is out of your price range, here is a much more moderate EUR 300 1d Red 1913 'Roo:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Austalia-sta ... 231ce4e0a9



And lots of other stuff, and I use that word advisedly.

http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/roma355/m.ht ... 4340.l2562

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Cyrillic script? Well it must be Russian! One more rare gem from roma355, totally worth it for the starting bid of 79 Euros and 8 euros postage.



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Russia-Stamp ... 231ce272bf

Poor guy must be out of work or has no idea. Maybe I can sell him my 1d roos for $100 each he must see that as a bagain.

Michael

I see eBay 'sales' (I use the term VERY loosely) and have to wonder where these people come from and then I think to the television and the various shows that have populated the US market and realise they are EVERYWHERE! If some of these people had been in charge back during the dark ages would fire have even been discovered, or the wheel?

It seems that the fame of the Uglies has spread to Argentina. Seller Celestamps in Buenos Aires is expecting somewhere north of $US399 for this lot of Jammu & Kashmir



http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370611896829

There are a few small difficulties with this, though. Stamps 3, 4 and 5 are worthless forgeries, and the remaining stamps, in good condition, would catalogue £18 - of which the cut-into last stamp accounts for £14.

Well, nothing wrong with unbridled optimism, I suppose.

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'First I'll steal all the money, then I'll kill everybody, and then I'll go away', Père Ubu

OK, here's one from seller unicorntechs: "Malta 1902 1p on 2 1/2p, Scott #20b double surch ?, VF-U. Scott '11 CV $4500.00"



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160798892398

But it Now at $4500

Of course that is not the double surcharge. It's just an overinked example. Such varieties are common with this issue and other Government Printing Office overprints (all of Malta's overprints from 1902 to 1928). This is the error:



The image is taken from Grosvenor Auctions sale 60, lot 3309

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My wantlist for Malta Revenues

Here's my nomination for Shirtfront of the Year:



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Patiala-India-Indian-States-Br-Commonwealth-KEDVII-ERROR-OVPT-PATIAEA-PAIR-/310394176514?pt=UK_Stamps_CommonwealthStamps_GL&hash=item4844ef44

from eBay seller creativityplus4, who seems to have more than his fair share of bad luck in picking up duds for resale.

Described as "Patiala, India, Indian States. Br.Commonwealth, KEDVII. ERROR OVPT PATIAEA INSTEAD OF PATIALA PAIR. EXTREEMLY RARE." and yours BIN for £5000 or you can make an offer.

This error is so EXTREEMLY RARE that in the past century or so, it's escaped the eagle eye of the Gibbons editor. Or could it have something to do with the fact that the 'E' has been crudely added by hand?

Mr creativityplus4 assures us that "Many items like these will be offered in the next month or so, as need to retire. All will be offered without any reserve and very low start value." Roll on the happy day when he no longer infests eBay.

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'First I'll steal all the money, then I'll kill everybody, and then I'll go away', Père Ubu

Spot on. He couldn't even make an 'L' look like an 'E' properly.

Another ebay seller thrown into the 'Name and Shame' bin.

Cheers

Does a forger count as a dreamer?

He does when he thinks he can get £5000 for his efforts

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'First I'll steal all the money, then I'll kill everybody, and then I'll go away', Père Ubu

Looks like creativityplus4 is looking to make a quick score so as to fund his retirement. Just wait for Walmart to enter the India market, then creativityplus4 can become a "Greeter", that's a job that's hard to stuff up, unlike the job he did on the Patiaea overprints.

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Collecting Mongolia; Thailand; Indo-China; Mourning Covers; OHMS.
My online 'store': http://stampsfromaethelwulf.blogspot.com/

I'm waiting with great interest to see the 'many items like these'. I can always do with a good laugh.

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'First I'll steal all the money, then I'll kill everybody, and then I'll go away', Père Ubu

A sale would be a completed transaction, or in an auction setting, someone has to have at least put in a bid. To be pedantic, the gallery of rarities we present here are simply offers. You could run an auction full of kiddie kollections or fiddled-with stamps priced at pie-in-the-sky four or five figures, you wouldn't stay in business long.

(Oh but wait, that's what Feldman did offering the "headless 'Roo, and their much-touted inaugural HK sale was a disaster of unsolds due to silly estimates; Gartner has received heavy flak for its Indian States offerings lately too).


Well sure they would have...while the medieval-era equivalent to Kardashian-followers were busy getting all excited hoping to catch a glimpse of a fair maiden or mountain spirit or the bogeyman, the small, educated clique comprised of such as Dark Ages philatelists, would actually be doing something productive in life.

How many years has society been set back by reality TV and People magazine? Gene Roddenberry set Star Trek in the 23rd century, but that was in the 1960s, following the harnessing of nuclear power, the invention of the computer...life was looking up at that time.

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If he really puts his mind to it, he might manage something that could fool Blind Freddy.

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Collecting Mongolia; Thailand; Indo-China; Mourning Covers; OHMS.
My online 'store': http://stampsfromaethelwulf.blogspot.com/

Oh, come come, Aethelwulf! For years, creativityplus4's been providing innocent entertainment for the masses with his startling selection of used high values of stamps noone else has seen or been able to obtain. I doubt that even Blind Freddy would be taken in.

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'First I'll steal all the money, then I'll kill everybody, and then I'll go away', Père Ubu

Tony,

I think creativityplus4 knows Blind Freddy already...he must have commissioned him to turn those "L"s into "E"s....

Having failed several times to sell this, at lower prices, o2ke has relisted it today, for USD 6,232.90 or BIN USD 7,420.00. His description, like many of his others defies belief



Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

And break out all of your Australian States Inverted Watermarks and shoot them off to captainandmate offering to sell them for USD 100 each. He can then offer them on eBay for USD 999

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Western-Aust ... 27c70d778b





Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

While I am on a roll, I recommend you check your duplicate box for your copies of this USA Space Stamp.



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/United-State ... 25709105bd

If you can't find one philat1 will sell you the above for EUR 450.00

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

o2ke could not sell this stamp at AUD 35, and could not sell it relisted at AUD 350, he has decided that this is really rhe big one, and now has it on eBay for USD 3,080 or BIN USD 3,420

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/IVA-79-memor ... 1c271e0751

Oh, and he needs a Geography lesson. Or forty Geography lessons..

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Totally shocked that he didn't get any takers at $2,700 but surely now at $2,300 someone will snap this beauty up!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Polska-collector-stamp-Black-corrective.......1e6e2c4276

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John

Is it possible for this banknote to cost US $20 000 000.00?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INDIA-1000-RUPEES-P12-1928-KING-GEORGE-KARACHI-WORLDS-ONLY-KNOWN-PIECE-RARE-/400185156867



Cheers

And don't forget to pay the $89.98 for registered mail.

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Stamps on eBay: USA & worldwide. Lots of Dr. Who, Star Trek & Star Wars comics, too. Do Advanced search for Seller ddaannv and Keyword the country you collect (or leave Keyword blank).

Yet another eBay seller who starts to hyperventilate at the sight of an Indian States stamp.

Seller cassahar (feedback score 95.5%) offers these Poonch stamps



http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160807613688

with the heading 'India Priencely Poonch State stamps . SUPER RARE, RARE', I suppose leaving it to the reader to decide whether they're 'SUPER RARE' or just 'RARE'. Or perhaps the first stamp is the 'SUPER RARE' one and the other is merely 'RARE'.

Cassahar goes on to assure us 'Great lot of this 2 Indian Poonch Stamps Red and Yellow very Rare ones in good condition. These are scott's book price in the thousands.' I've said before that I don't have a very high opinion of Scott, but I can't believe it would value these two 'in the thousands', unless it's cents we're talking about.

The precise type of paper the stamps are on is everything with Poonch. Taking the most likely prices for the rather dodgy photos, I'd suggest the Gibbons catalogue value is £12.50. The 'SUPER RARE' one appears to be an SG 32 - £5.50 to buy from Gibbons. On that basis, I have a lot of SUPER RARE, not to mention EXTRA SUPER RARE stamps in my collection. Maybe I should be grateful to cassahar for upgrading my collection for me.

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'First I'll steal all the money, then I'll kill everybody, and then I'll go away', Père Ubu

Damn, Tony, I was thinking about bidding on that lot!!!

Now you've spoiled ALL my fun

Obviously? these people don't have catalogues/ don't know how to read catalogues/ read auction sites and mis-interpret values for stamps....or just take a BIG guess!

I know, that in working out my stamp value, if the first one I find is a high value one, I immediately back track... I'm not that lucky!!! When I've researched it a bit more...hello, it's the $1.00 one not the $1,000.00 one... but that is the way it is! And that is why there are catalogues out there...but then again, we wouldn't have threads like this to give us entertainment would we!!!

I love reading this thread!!

Anne

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I am having fun collecting WW and Indian States.

Well, of course, Anne, you wouldn't ever buy from an eBay seller with a 95.5% feedback score, who can't even photograph his (or her) stamps upright. Would you? Would you?

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'First I'll steal all the money, then I'll kill everybody, and then I'll go away', Père Ubu

Hmmmmmmm...have to think.....

Probably NOT without your say-so!!!

I think I'd get into trouble!

Although,... I did buy those Travancore stamps I showed you with a VERY dodgey picture! And for 99p that lot turned out OK with a couple of very nice OP's that made it worthwhile!

But we're talking 99p....not thousands or even hundreds of dollars!!!!

Truely, those Poonch stamps, I would have definitely asked you first, regardless of the sellers feedback rating!... I might make a cheeky offer, how low can you go!...but I don't think he'll come at it and I'm not worried either way!!!

Anne

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I am having fun collecting WW and Indian States.

I include this (now closed) item from perennial favourite o2ke mainly as another example as to how he can mangle English and concepts like no-one else on the planet. I don't need to add that it is a totally worthless stamp:

Priced at USD 564

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Father-Chris ... 1c271e01aa






Norm

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OMG, they are multiplying!



From stockrocket, we now have six of the little beggars for USD5,500 or BIN USD7,000

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/France-6-Blu ... 20c5b9327d

I won't repeat it but he uses o2ke's exact flowery description as quoted above above, word for word.

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

As the famous line in When Harry Met Sally goes, "I'll have what she's having." Must be some pretty funky stuff o2ke's smoking.

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Collecting Mongolia; Thailand; Indo-China; Mourning Covers; OHMS.
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