Complete set of 1972 Venezuelan stamps/stickers

[Cliff Bowman]

The counterfeiter didn’t do the whole set, I’m guessing he did fakes of authentic stickers that he had scans or photos of. I have never seen a counterfeit Tom Seaver and quite a few of the commons. He also messed up on several cards, from memory the fake Santo and Marichal in action have wrong numbers, the fake Alston is missing the team name, there was a common (Sudakis?) that was missing something (number?) on the counterfeit, and the authentic McLain has no team name but the counterfeit McLain has a team name, if I remember correctly. I do have to commend the counterfeiter for taking the time and effort to make fake commons when they wouldn’t be profitable, it would have looked fishy if he only made copies of Rose, Ryan, B. Robinson, Killebrew, Yastrzemski, Kaline, Carlton, Garvey, and Carew.

[martingale]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

The counterfeiter didn’t do the whole set, I’m guessing he did fakes of authentic stickers that he had scans or photos of. I have never seen a counterfeit Tom Seaver and quite a few commons. He also messed up on several cards, from memory the fake Santo, Marichal, and Alston all have wrong numbers, there was a common (Sudakis?) that was missing something (number?) on the counterfeit, and the authentic McLain has no team name but the counterfeit McLain has a team name, if I remember correctly. I do have to commend the counterfeiter for taking the time and effort to make fake commons when they wouldn’t be profitable, it would have looked fishy if he only made copies of Rose, Ryan, Kaline, Carlton, and Carew.

Thanks for the info. What about the 1972 Puerto Rican League stickers - are you aware of any fakes in circulation?

[Cliff Bowman]

It would certainly be very profitable to make counterfeits of the 1972 Puero Rican Mike Schmidt but I am not aware of that ever being suspected or discussed.

[Krasman]

Opening up this older thread.
In search of the 1972 Al Kaline sticker for my set if anyone can assist.
Greatly appreciate it....thank you.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Krasman

Opening up this older thread.
In search of the 1972 Al Kaline sticker for my set if anyone can assist.
Greatly appreciate it....thank you.

When you find one make sure it has evidence of being placed in the album and removed, if it has no evidence of being placed in the album it’s almost certainly an early 2000’s counterfeit.

[morton35]

This entire thread is great information about an obscure set. I have been trying for several years to complete an Astros run from the Venezuelan sets and looking for these stamps has been one of the major challenges - now made harder. Never would have dreamed there would be fakes here. The seller Josh mentioned in his post was someone I have also dealt with on several transactions (none from this set) and he seemed legit - so I do hope he was not directly involved.

Chris