APEX works with VGG, recalls certificate after experts deem overprint fake

Unbeknownst to the American Philatelic Expertizing Service, the inverted overprint on a block of four Admiral stamps was previously certified as fake by the Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation.

After being certified as genuine by a U.S. expertization service, a 94-year-old block of four “Admiral” provisional stamps with an unlisted inverted surcharge has been deemed fake by the Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation. The mint block of four 1926 two-cent-on-three-cent carmine “Admiral” provisional stamps (Scott #139) was apparently first discussed in 1978, when... Continue reading →

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