Old Put Question...

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Posted By: Hankron

Neither I or Jay were really commenting about your Old Put (I just glaced at yours and I'm largely ignorant about the variation and its value). It's just that, at the chat room, Jay and I concurred that, if the premiums on this overprint zoom, someone may be tempted to make their own overprints.

Under the catogory of 'Easier Said Than Done', I don't think it would be a snap to make an identical rubber stamp. What current Old Put owners can do is to take very high quality scans of the overprint. With the availability of several of these scans any future fake stamps would most likely be weeded out.

So as innoculation to any potential problems, the current owner can simply document the card's history (including if that merely means saving the receipt from last Tuesday) and take a real good scan of the overprint. This will help to protect both his investment and the hobby in general ... Naturally documenting the provenance relates to other rubberstamp overprints as well, especially unusual ones.