Opinions II: Philatelic Expertizing – An Inside View
Edited by Elizabeth C. Pope
Published by The Philatelic Foundation, New York, N.Y., 1985
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Elizabeth C. Pope – i
Preface by Elliott H. Coulter – ii
Acknowledgements by John F. Dunn – iii
Raise the Spitfire! by Richard B. Graham – 3
“Gilding the Lily” May Not May It “Good as Gold” by Frank Mandel – 10
The Fatal Flaw by William T. Crowe – 20
The Hidden Clue by William T. Crowe – 23
A Trisect? by Victor B. Krievins – 26
Do-It-Yourself Postal History by Lowell S. Newman – 30
A New Type on an Old Position by Peter A. Robertson – 34
A New Slant on an Old Cut by Peter A. Robertson – 38
Surprise and Protect Yourself by Gene Reed – 43
Faking the Ever-Popular “A” Grill by C.W. Bert Christian – 47
Bisects Will Be Bisects…Or Will They? by Jonathan W. Rose – 52
Reconsideration by Stanley M. Piller – 56
The Dynamics of Expertizing First Day Covers by Henry B. Scheuer – 59
Printed On Both Sides by George W. Brett – 70
The 596 That Wasn’t by Clyde Jennings – 73
Completing the Story by Philip Silver – 81
Unofficial Officials by Lewis Kaufman – 85
When Two Heads Are Not Better Than One! by Brian M. Bleckwenn – 89
Taking A Second Look by Lowell S. Newman – 92
Seeing Through Fake Panes by Richard F. Larkin – 95
A Painful Discovery by Peter A. Robertson – 104
The Closer One Looks by Victor E. Engstrom – 109
Two-Faced Postal History: McKinley And Rizal Back To Back by Irwin Siegel – 113
Unauthorized But Genuine by Henry S. Stollnitz – 115
The Case of the Altered Stamp by Brian M. Green – 120
Non-Philatelic Expertizing by D. Scott Gallagher – 124
“Pretty As A Picture” Is Not Necessarily “Good As Gold” by Frank Mandel – 129
The Fall Of A “Confederate Usage” by Brian M. Green – 139
Traps For The Unwary by Robert P. Odenweller – 147
Shifting Empire by Timothy A. Holmes – 153
Postal History As An Expertizing Tool, And Vice Versa by Lee C. Scamp – 158
The Ruination of A Beautiful Cover by David L. Jarrett – 170
Tough To Identify by Sherman E. Rogers – 174
A New Forgery by Michael E. Ruggiero – 181
The Experts and Written History by Richard Krieger – 185
Be Your Own Expert by Ernst M. Cohn – 188