Rainer's Stamp and Postal History Forum http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; Rainer's Stamp and Postal History Forum : Last 10 Posts Thu, 17 May 2012 06:37:38 +0000 Sun, 06 May 2012 09:39:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.01 30 www.fuchs-online.com/forum/RSS_topic_feed.asp Rainer's Stamp and Postal History Forum http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/forum_images/forum_logo.png http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/ Classic Stamps (Kukris issues) : Nepal forgeries at ebay http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/nepal-forgeries-at-ebay_topic157_post458.html#458 Author: gandarva
Subject: Nepal forgeries at ebay
Posted: 06 May 2012 at 9:39am

Searching for interesting stamps or covers at ebay you find more forgeries than genuine items - very disillusioning!

ebay

Wish you a good sunday,
Johannes]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 09:39:25 +0000 http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/nepal-forgeries-at-ebay_topic157.html Nepal Postmarks and Postal History : Royal Visits in Nepal from 1876 http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/royal-visits-in-nepal-from-1876_topic119_post457.html#457 Author: Ed Gosnell
Subject: Royal Visits in Nepal from 1876
Posted: 20 April 2012 at 2:57pm

A reaaly nice section, Johannes.  I enjoyed reading it. Excellent information.
Best regards, Ed Gosnell
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Subject: Royal Visits in Nepal from 1876
Posted: 20 April 2012 at 10:09am

Those who are interested in the Royal Visits in Nepal might be interested in the part "Big Game Hunting" of my website:

Big Game Hunting (German)

Maybe this is the english google-translation:

Big Game Hunting (English)

I hope the translation works,

Johannes
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Subject: Camp Mail
Posted: 18 April 2012 at 5:43pm

Dear Herbert,

 

Welcome at the Forum. Very nice covers you show here and as you mentioned, even more questions and doubts. I trust you will find some qualified answers.

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Subject: Camp Mail
Posted: 18 April 2012 at 5:13pm

A few days ago, I met Ed Gosnell and swapped some words with him about “Camp Mail”. He has invited me to post my scans in this forum - what I like to do even though I know not how far it can be of interest for the members of this forum.


I reproduce my e-mail to Ed:


Dear Ed,

thanks for Your answer. In first, an apology: I don’t speak English and to communicate I make do whit the few works which I know and an dictionary. For this ration my phrases are simple and probably incorrect. I beg You to have patience.

Now to our hobby: I'm impressed by your “Camp Mail” site and send you a scan of my camp items:

Scan 1: With this private seal canceled cover I am very satisfied because the postmark touches the stamp and it is a relatively late use of Camp Mail. Although only the second digit of the year ("6") can be seen, it will be probably B.S. 96 (A.D. 1940).

Scan 2: This is an unusual 4 paisa franked Sawari letter (A.D. 1914), which is still misterios for me. In appearance, it is not a double weight letter - if ever the weight had any incidence in the cost of Camp Mail. On the other hand I am reluctant to believe that it is only an error of postage by the sender, because usually the nepalese people are very accurate in the possibility of not spending too much. As said, up to now I have not a clear opinion on this cover.

Scan 3: Is a problem child of my collection. Apart from the fact that it is only the front side of a cover - but this is not particularly disturbing me - the prolem is the horrible strike of the seal. With plenty of imagination and a large portion of doubt, I believe to see a strike of the Camp Seals. Anyway, the stike is so terrible that he is not worthy to be exhibited and in future I must replace the cover with a better one.

Finally, two very dubious items:

Scan 4: is of beautiful appearance - but in my opinion not genuine. Although the ink is old, the writing of the sender is correct for this time and also the stamp is genuine, the entire seems me wrong because the stamp is a telegraph iusses. Too,I have never seen this seal.

Scan 5: This is a cover, which still my father has bought in the 1980 years for a lot of money, but I have the biggest doubt about the authenticity and have expelled the cover from my collection.

Ed - as you can see - I have much more doubt than I have letters...

Best regards,
                                   Herbert




Scan 1



Scan 2



Scan 3



Scan 4



Scan 5]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:13:15 +0000 http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/camp-mail_topic159.html Classic Stamps (Kukris issues) : Nepal forgeries at ebay http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/nepal-forgeries-at-ebay_topic157_post453.html#453 Author: gandarva
Subject: Nepal forgeries at ebay
Posted: 09 April 2012 at 9:22am

Rainer, I'm afraid you are right OuchOuchOuch
Johannes
]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:22:24 +0000 http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/nepal-forgeries-at-ebay_topic157.html Classic Stamps (Kukris issues) : Nepal forgeries at ebay http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/nepal-forgeries-at-ebay_topic157_post452.html#452 Author: Rainer
Subject: Nepal forgeries at ebay
Posted: 09 April 2012 at 8:51am

Johannes,

 

eBay is full of such forgeries/reprints/reproductions how ever you may call them. I have the change to have items removed if they are listed at eBay Germany or eBay USA but gave up. eBay UK does not remove any item...

It is a fight against windmills.

]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:51:56 +0000 http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/nepal-forgeries-at-ebay_topic157.html Classic Stamps (Kukris issues) : Nepal forgeries at ebay http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/nepal-forgeries-at-ebay_topic157_post451.html#451 Author: gandarva
Subject: Nepal forgeries at ebay
Posted: 03 April 2012 at 2:22pm

… another one by the seller „horizoncourt-55“:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/China-Tibet-Nepal-1914c-Cover-Lhasa-Tibet-to-Nepal-/150790206759?pt=UK_Stamps_ROWStamps&hash=item231bcbf527

And many Tibet „REPR​ODUCTIONS“ Wacko

Greetings from Germany,
Johannes
]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:22:51 +0000 http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/nepal-forgeries-at-ebay_topic157.html Nepal Postmarks and Postal History : Mail from Locations without a Post Office http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/mail-from-locations-without-a-post-office_topic158_post450.html#450 Author: Ed Gosnell
Subject: Mail from Locations without a Post Office
Posted: 14 March 2012 at 5:42am

I have just put 8 pages of classic covers on my web site (nepalstamps.com) from towns and villages that did not have their own post office.  To the best of my knowledge such mail has not been previously researched in any depth.   These pages are part of an exhibit examining Classic Nepalese Official Mail that I am working on for the 2016 New York international show.  Any comments, suggestions or corrections would be greatly appreciated.  I am attaching the upper half of the first page of this section below to illustrate what I am talking about.
 
 
]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:42:25 +0000 http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/mail-from-locations-without-a-post-office_topic158.html Nepal Postmarks and Postal History : Royal Visits in Nepal from 1876 http://www.fuchs-online.com/forum/royal-visits-in-nepal-from-1876_topic119_post449.html#449 Author: Ed Gosnell
Subject: Royal Visits in Nepal from 1876
Posted: 06 March 2012 at 1:19am

For the record, both the Nepalese and British/Indian Royal Camp Postmarks of 1911 were forged as shown on the cover pictured below.  The forged Nepalese marking is a tiny bit larger than the genuine.  The bottoms of the G and the R in the GRI inscription on the British postmark do not overlap on the forged mark as they do on the genuine.  This lack of overlap can just barely be seen inside the red square on the cover below.  The forgeries are always dated 26 December.  Dr. Hellrigl has good illustrations in his book on the British/Indian Post Office in Nepal.  This cover appears to have been a genuine old cover addressed to London to which the Indian stamps and postmarks have been added over the original markings.  A small bit of an original postmark peeks through between the right most Indian and the Nepalese stamp. 

 
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