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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Werner Salentin, post: 47329, member: 2120&quot;]No doubt: you are an optimist !</p><p>If the Masaryk stamp is the small size one,your chance that you have the rare</p><p>upright watermark-variety will be about 1 : 100.000 or so.</p><p>The scenic 2 Koruny is even rarer.</p><p>You won´t find a sound genuine <u>used</u> Sicily 50 Grana for $80 - $400.-.</p><p>With $4000.- you might have a better chance.</p><p>However,I bet,Hochstrasse is correct: yours is a pretty crude forgery.</p><p><br /></p><p>This type of collection,or better accumulation,could be a dream for a not</p><p>so experienced collector.Put all the stamps in a chronological order,country</p><p>by country and then looking for varieties and so on.Could give an excellent</p><p>past time for quite some time.But without real useful catalogues (and not</p><p>such silly sides like: &quot;The most expensive stamps of...&quot;) one cannot succeed.</p><p>But this parts the collectors from accumulators.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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