FORGED OFFICIAL PERFINS BEING OFFERED FOR SALE on eBAY??!!

[Ross Ewington]

here is "the fake OS" in question .... I'm fairly certain that he has offered this one before!

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I'm not going to mention here how you can tell it's a fake as I don't wish to assist the forger
by providing technical information but if you would like to know, please contact me via the
TPS BB personal messaging facility.

[admin]

Good enough for me Ross. Thanks.
I'll be lodging a "Report this Item" with eBay and I hope others do so as well. Theres no way the alleged forger will know about such individual reports as far as I know.
Its very useful to have these forgeries reported here and even better if we can get the guy removed form eBay.
These sorts of forgeries de-value genuine items and tend to make collectors wary of perfins in general so its bad news for our hobby.
He's been given a lot of attention on StampBoards and he responds by selling a mocked up 'Roo" stamp on eBay with a portrait of Glenn Stevens and the words "Two Bob Idiot" . Obviously blowing his cover on a bulletin board has little effect on his repeated offerings of forgeries.

[Ross Ewington]

Unfortunately, UNISTAMPS then NSB13579 then STAMPS_FISHING now TRARALGON_STAMPS is offering more dodgy T perfins on eBay again.

In addition to this unlikely 6d Kingsford Smith.....

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....he is also has a used 3d Macarthur commem listed (with a Glendevie postmark) which looks 'plausible' but I have serious doubts about it
due to his previous appalling form.

[Ross Ewington]

.....unfortunately, there's some more.

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There is no record of either of these stamp having the T perfin applied. More importantly, as contemporary research in regard to T perfins was pursued quite enthusiastically,
it is more than just unlikely that either of these stamps will ever be found with a genuine T perfin.

Interesting to note that the same vendor has two other lots of the Cable duo for sale at the same time as the above forgeries.

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and

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Note the number of Tassie cds postmarks in the first of the two lots above.
No prizes for guessing from where "traralgon_stamps" chose his stamps to perforate!