How to spot fake 2nd class stamps ?

deanos

Could be that i guess

marleyboy

deanos wrote: »

you must have good eyesight i cant see a flaw,

peachyprice

marleyboy wrote: »

I am not sure if these are fake or not. But pay particular attention to the perforation flaw direct behind the Queens shoulder, on both stamps there appears a slight groove on either side, this is not generally produced during print, it could be a faulty batch, but no doubt both stamps are from the same batch, as the coincidence would be too big for both stamps to be torn in identical places. Its possible they were a rejected batch that did not even get as far as the gumming machine.

Sorry to disagree Marley, but I've got dozens of sheets and books of stamps here in my office with that groove. The perforations go 12 dots then an oval then 2 dots, on all mine the groove is in the exact same place as these stamps.

OP the stamps look fine to me, the same as the ones I have here. I was posting something the other day with lickable stamps (not all are self adhesive) but they wouldn't stick to the package, just kept falling off. i had to stick them to a piece of paper then tape the paper to the parcel. What was your parcel wrapped in?

Soubrette

When I look at images of 2nd class stamps they all have that flaw marleyboy.

marleyboy

Fair enough, it shows how long its been since I used stamps I blame e-mail

deanos

peachyprice wrote: »

Sorry to disagree Marley, but I've got dozens of sheets and books of stamps here in my office with that groove. The perforations go 12 dots then an oval then 2 dots, on all mine the groove is in the exact same place as these stamps.

OP the stamps look fine to me, the same as the ones I have here. I was posting something the other day with lickable stamps (not all are self adhesive) but they wouldn't stick to the package, just kept falling off. i had to stick them to a piece of paper then tape the paper to the parcel. What was your parcel wrapped in?

They were stuck to a plastic type mailer bag

fluffnutter

It's 64p's worth of stamps on a parcel that was successfully delivered! It's generating a fair bit of excitement....

peachyprice

deanos wrote: »

They were stuck to a plastic type mailer bag

Yes, that's what I couldn't get my lickable stamps to stick to, it was a Royal Mail one too. It sounds like that's all it is.

peachyprice

marleyboy wrote: »

Fair enough, it shows how long its been since I used stamps I blame e-mail

You don't get much fan mail then

marleyboy

Plenty of junk mail tho.