An impulsive buy on an eBay auction has landed me a big lot. It contained mostly stamp varieties from commonwealth countries. Most of the stamps didn't interest me much but I decided to investigate a few that caught my eye. I searched the online catalog
StampWorld.com to see if there were stamps that might be of value. I came across the 1859 Ceylon Queen Victoria Four Pence stamp. The catalog listed the unused stamp valued at $ 66,942. I said to myself 'yeah right!'. So I posted it on Facebook group. Promptly I was quoted Stanely Gibbons listing it at GBP 70,000. So had I landed myself a lottery? Wow, I was reveling in wishful thinking that I had landed myself a fortune.
I started searching the Internet about the stamp. My first instinct was this probably was not a real stamp. I came across details about
genuine and forged Ceylon Four Pence Rose. The article lists points about genuine and forged stamp. While some of these point to my stamp being a forgery, some points sound like the stamp might be genuine.
It seems I can get my stamp evaluated by
The Royal Philatelic Society of London. Let me research more on my own before I spend GBP 810 on getting this stamp evaluated.
Here's the genuine stamp according to Stamp Forgeries website:
And some forgeries from the same site:
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