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The $60,000 Baghdad stamp

December 30th, 2007 No comments

I have seen this stamp before on eBay, it is obvious it will never sell because there is no certificate with it, no one has seen it or heard about it before, and it has a ridiculous price, but anyway I have a larger scan of this stamp which is on sale at the moment in eBay.

 >>Bigger version of the stamp with the error

>>Bigger version of the stamp along with the normal stamp without error

There is a lot of things which make me think this is a fake, I will just mention one which I noticed. Notice how the big post mark on the right which is so clear and looks exactly like the ink used for the rest of the writing on the stamp, but also notice on the bottom left corner of the stamp, there is a big mark which you can hardly even though the other post mark is so clear. So what is this ink on the bottom left of the stamp? If its a post mark why is it not the same clear ink of the other post mark? Could this be a used Turkey stamp which has been faked to be a never heard off error of a Baghdad under British Occupation stamp? You decide.

Some artistamps with an Iraq theme

December 30th, 2007 No comments

Ok these are no mine so please don’t ask if I have them for sale.

 I found these on eBay, they are nice and interesting, the original stamps had Military occupation of San Dinero, now San Dinero is just a non existent country in South America. In the ones below, the words San dinero are overprinted with the word IRAQ.

Unfortunately I missed out on buying these, I would have liked to have them.Â