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<p>[QUOTE="Werner Salentin, post: 39492, member: 2120"]This text is not mine,but from a collector who writes the best articles,</p><p>better than most books,about forgeries,I know.</p><p><br /></p><p>The scariest words that describe a collection on common auctions are <i><b>"From an old collection"</b></i></p><p>This is supposed to somehow reassure one that this collection is the real thing.</p><p>Actually it is quite the opposite, grandfather/father lived during the heyday of packet sales that were full of forgeries.</p><p>They did not have forums, wiki or the availability of books on forgeries. Many of these books were very limited and in the language of the issuing country.</p><p>So everyone who collects world wide 1840 - 1940 is also collecting forgeries and like it or not, they are part of the hobby and have their own place in the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Werner Salentin, post: 39492, member: 2120"]This text is not mine,but from a collector who writes the best articles, better than most books,about forgeries,I know. The scariest words that describe a collection on common auctions are [I][B]"From an old collection"[/B][/I] This is supposed to somehow reassure one that this collection is the real thing. Actually it is quite the opposite, grandfather/father lived during the heyday of packet sales that were full of forgeries. They did not have forums, wiki or the availability of books on forgeries. Many of these books were very limited and in the language of the issuing country. So everyone who collects world wide 1840 - 1940 is also collecting forgeries and like it or not, they are part of the hobby and have their own place in the hobby.[/QUOTE]
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