I have often heard:
"There is no large collection which has some truth!"
It reassures me a bit! Still
it is always unpleasant to realize that we had been fooled!
The goal is to make it take as little as possible.
So it becomes more and more attentive, even suspicious. We
information we read, we listen to advice. We are going on forums, blogs ...
And finally, it was still in the bone a few times! Just to know. Prepare.
I keep preciously in my albums this postcard, purchased when I was still a little young, a famous merchant Vésinet.
The price was good writing naive and child, the date corresponded ... and photo catalog not terrible. The description of this vertical pair made me dream: one of the famous vertical pairs of 20 c. lilac-pink Sower, Type III and Type V standing! In a letter to then!
And then there was the signature of the great Parisian expert!
So I bought, fortunately not too expensive, given the rarity of the case!
My doubts began course upon receipt of the lot: even with a magnifying glass, it can not be formal, but the perforation between the two patches seems to have been folded ...
This is often the case in the middle of a sheet, you tell me ... Or
is it a craft malicious? ...
I do not see how the expert can decide.
I prefer not to know, even today.
short, I am not amused to fly the pair to see if the two were standing well ...
I trusted.
Am I wrong?
Only much later, by purchasing one day an entire sheet containing the two types (the price of a normal leaf, I assure you), I did a much better deal, then I also found this pair to complete my album page:
As if this "variety" of chasing me its charms ...
Know that there is only galvano of 50 stamps with the type V for three galvanos 50 in Type III inside the cylinder of the curious "plank" BH + BI in question.
This is unique for the type Sower.
Since my purchase, the years have passed and I never dared, despite my doubts, return this card to the vendor, which may be a forgery, but rather Appraised!
Or not? ? ?
agree with me that it would still be vicious to make here: a real trap specialist collectors, and expert ...
30 years later, I still doubt : I myself have done, or not?
I keep this card on a page of my collection, like a precious memory, next to the pair no doubt genuine, so you never forget me suspicious of everything, and not to rely on many people!
Sheep to 5 feet exist, and perhaps I've found a, they do not run sales offers ...
Maybe one day after me who will have this page, also thinks that the card is much rarer than the new pair, and maybe he has the courage to take off his stamps sure ...
Maybe Will there be seen one day forum, which knows ...
And then maybe you it prefers to remain in doubt, like me?
're never really sure not to be fooled.
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