{"id":164,"date":"2007-11-28T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/fake-under-occupation-overprints\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T23:39:09","slug":"fake-under-occupation-overprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/fake-under-occupation-overprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake: under occupation overprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across these stamps on eBay which were described as unofficial so that&#8217;s a good start but the buyer is implying that some were used as real postage on covers, well there is absolutely no proof of that.<\/p>\n<p>After the occupation of 2003 a lot of these fake overprints turned up but were quickly rejected as fakes. These are examples of this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/5e4f_1-1.jpg\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/5f57_1-1.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/6075_1-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<font color=\"#ff0000\">Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like these stamps, I think they can be considered as work of art<\/font><\/strong>, but as always, I do not like it when sellers make out as if they are selling something which it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across these stamps on eBay which were described as unofficial so that&#8217;s a good start but the buyer is implying that some were used as real postage on covers, well there is absolutely no proof of that. After the occupation of 2003 a lot of these fake overprints turned up but were quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-stamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraq-stamps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}