This is the quickest and safest method I have found for soaking stamps which have been been gummed to an envelope (meaning they are not self-adhesive or "peel and stick" varieties, which I always soak...
Once stamps exceed several hundred dollars each, quality becomes more important than many buyers seem to realise. I use the analogy with cars - one can buy a 1960 VW or a 1960 Rolls, but you would not expect...
ARHHHHHHHH!!!!! Well it finally happened! I got taken by another member selling fake knock off JUNK. I bought this WW2 RZM Dagger from a guy in th UK. The gallery pic was too dark to tell, the price was right,...
Nothing but Wallpaper! You see a lot of these so called essays, test prints, proofs, etc, of the WW 2 German Reich stamps offered on eBay and other internet sites. These look like the souvenir sheets from the...
The only German colonies that coins were produced for were German New Guinea (8 different Coins ), German Kiautschou (2 different coins ) and German East Africa (13 different coins) .The coins produced for...
During the World War 2 about 30 to 40 billions feldpost letters was mailed, from home to front, front to home, and front to front. In order not to give too many information away the Feldpost system used a...
You see a lot of the Hitler Death Head or skull stamps being offered as having been produced as propaganda forgeries. Most of them are nothing more than fakes, produced after the war to defraud collectors....
It has been observed that ordinary covers posted at Foreign Post Offices in China (mainly French and German POs in Shanghai and particularly during the China Large Dragon-Small Dragon-RR-Dowager era) with...
For Contax Carl Zeiss C/Y (Contax/Yashica) mount SLR lenses, there are four different batches in the market: AEG, AEJ, MMG and MMJ. Both AEG MMG are made in Germany by Carl Zeiss, while AEJ MMJ are made in...
There seems to be a never-ending supply of modern day reproductions or fakes of the WW 2 German stamps. Most of these are being produced in Europe and are sold on the German eBay, as fakes. Now these are...