Comments for Russian Philately – Russian Stamps

Comment on A History of Russian Philately. Part 1 by Russian Philately

Russian Philately — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:46:51 +0000

Copy and paste into a Word file. Save the file as PDF. Voila!

Comment on A History of Russian Philately. Part 1 by John Seidl

John Seidl — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:42:50 +0000

Any chance you could make your 3 part history available as PDF files that we could download? Great information. Thank you

Comment on Forgeries. Empire and Soviet proofs on eBay by Andy

Andy — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 02:02:59 +0000

I have just bought a lot of “Proof & Printing Errors” on ebay. On receipt of the items I had a good look and these are my comments –
– 1904 War Orphans Fund – very poor quality printing unlike the actual stamp which was
sharp and clear
– Modern errors – certainly appear computer produced – same paper for nine different issues and appear to have been photo shopped.
I did not pay much for them but am spreading the word to be careful.

Comment on Buzuluk zemstvo stamp forgeries on eBay by G.Walter

G.Walter — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:29:31 +0000

This is interesting, I know i.b.redguy, so we can only hope he sold it by accident, and not deliberately.
There are now many other ‘dealers’ on Ebay.com who ONLY sell ink-jet prints as genuine stamps, very active recently: antoniostamps, then chaykacy, stampseller84, but also a seller in Kiev, ‘qm400’ has started to sell ink jet prints, his tsar Nikolai abdication stamps were all ink jet print, not only the overprint, but even the stamps (and many other stamps too!)
Another British seller who sells Russian bad ink jet prints as genuine is also : sussex-stamps.

Comment on Gurevich. The Grand Catalog of the Zemstvo Posts of Russia. Vol. 6 by Vitaliy

Vitaliy — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 01:41:15 +0000

Must have

Comment on Forgeries. Empire and Soviet proofs on eBay by G. Walter

G. Walter — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:57:58 +0000

It is sad that these people can sell computer prints as ‘genuine rare engraved Proofs’, the Nikolai II computer print sells at ridiculous $500. The funny thing is, on most their prints they write the word PRObA, in the same writing …never mind if the stamp is from 1870 or 1935 !! The questions are, why does ebay not do anything?? Because they get their 20% ?? And..how is it possible that the buyers dont realize they bought a computer printed stamp!! Dont forget, these ‘sellers’ all sell as GENUINE!! They have now started to sell Zemstwos as well Also all the Soviet colour varieties are computer prints