Bloome's Chocolate OP for Sale

Kotton King · #1 05-19-2009, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Leon

Eric- Maybe a few newbies will be scared away.

I definitely still consider myself a noob. I've only been in the hobby for 2 1/2 years and I've still got plenty to learn.

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Originally Posted by Leon

Folks that have been collecting a long time, and have gotten overprints from original collections, shouldn't be scared.I would be much more worried about mint or nrmt-mt pre-war cards than overprints

Good point. Provenance would definitely help.

Anyway, sorry for hijacking your thread Mike. Good luck with your sale, and I hope everything works out for you and your family.

E93 · #2 05-19-2009, 12:46 PM

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I would be much more worried about mint or nrmt-mt pre-war cards than overprints.....but I am biased too

I would be much more worried about a complete run of E94 overprints than some nm or better pre-war cards.

Producing a few stamps is a lot easier than turning vg corners into nm/mt corners. Trimming is pretty easy to detect these days.
JimB

rman444 · #3 05-19-2009, 01:45 PM

I don't think the issue is whether or not most or all of the current ones that exist today are real.

I think the issue is whether or not one could reproduce an accurate overprint today or in the near future.