Parker Envelopes

[Bill Zachow]

Dean, you are correct and it is a Federal crime to counterfeit U.S. coins yet the Chinese are mass manufacturing old and not so old coins for sale to collectors. The secret service is well aware and nothing is done. These envelopes may not fall under the law as they are a "fantasy" item--not a true copy as the postage is wrong.

[Bill Murphy]

I checked the postage on google. First class was three cents in the time period I asked about. The envelopes may not be faked, they may be real. The Parker logos are probably faked since they are being sold by more than one vendor and appeared at the same time.

[Bill Murphy]

If the claim is made that they are "new old stock", should we ask the vendor if it would be OK to use the three or four cents as partial postage to mail one of these envelopes?