1991 Copeland Collection--Any Dollar Totals?

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by steve B

One of the famous stamp collectors in the early 1900s was very wealthy and bought on a whim, usually paying in gold.
Fakers took enough advantage of Count Ferrary that many particularly good fakes, some of stuff that never existed became known as "ferrarities"

Nobody told him either.

Cool story. So besides the T206 Wagner I guess there is likely to be other Copelandtrocities out there.

Brian

[bgar3]

I know most of the interest seems to be in the cards, but he had amazing 19th century stuff, some of which passed for failure to meet the minimum bid. At least one lot was misidentified, a cdv identified as Barnes, is not Barnes.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Cool story. So besides the T206 Wagner I guess there is likely to be other Copelandtrocities out there.

Brian

I wouldn't be at all surprised.

I think nearly all great collections have at least a few items that are iffy.
I know mine has a few altered cards, and a couple outright fakes and it's not exactly a "great" collection. hopefully it's only the ones I already know about.