The black bar (Old Mill) overprints were fake. I believe it was Lew Lipset's encyclopedia, which was printed in black & white, the images of those cards (single overprint SLer, and double overprint SLer), appeared to be black bars (in reality, they were red)...so the person who made fake ones, made the bars black, which fooled some people initially, but the OG collectors knew they were really red.
To my knowledge (Ted jump in), there is only one or two single overprint SLers, and one double overprint(?).
And again, Ted, your reply was rather downplayed...this is a really big discovery, if real, no? I have not seen or heard of any other upside down overprints other than the SLers mentioned above.
Last edited by MVSNYC; 08-24-2019 at 11:46 AM.
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