Babe Ruth Cachet - 1914 Balt. image

[t206wagner]

And he sold one with a 48 Leaf Ruth on it postmarked in 1939. How did that happen?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Baseball-Fir...#ht_165wt_1172

[rhettyeakley]

Somebody got ahold of some old plate blocks of the 1939 stamp and is creating these things. At least be smart about it... 1939 item with the image of a card produced a decade later? Criminals are so stupid sometimes!

[triwak]

Hmmm.... Something not right, here.

[Hankphenom]

These are called "Add-on" cachets, something fairly new to the hobby, I believe, where old stamped envelopes are imprinted with a new image. Cachet expert Phil Marks clued me in after I unknowingly picked up a couple for resale a year or so ago. The seller of the Ruth has a tiny "Add-on" listed under the image, although I don't know how the postmark got on there--maybe that's new, too. They are practically worthless, and the buyer of the Ruth really got hosed. These are made with the intention to deceive, I think.

[yanksfan09]

He must be dumb for using a 1948 image on that but it seems to be working for him as he raked in over $300 on that Ruth. Disgusting...

[novakjr]

I was keeping an eye on that too. I thought it was a pretty sharp looking piece, BUT knew exactly what it was.. I honestly can't believe it went for as much as it did.. Somebody is gonna be very disappointed once they figure it out...

[Steve D]

Covers like that are very easy to make. There are plenty of first day covers out there that have no cachets on them; they're just envelopes with the stamp and postmark on them.

It's a simple matter to take these uncacheted covers and print a cachet on them.

Steve

[rhettyeakley]

I think the guy is completely making these and not even bothering to find real stamped FDC's as both examples have the same date and time stamp 9 am on them. Looks like he has had a few rubber stamps made to help him on his way.