WW2 newspapers - real or facsimilie ?

Discussion in 'WW2 Militaria' started by aramsay, Mar 18, 2014.

  1. aramsay

    aramsay Junior Member

    I recently picked up a large pile of WW2 newspapers, in mostly excellent condition.

    A few days later I noticed someone on e-Bay selling some as facsimiles, and I began to suspect mine were too..........

    Having looked at mine again, I am now fairly sure they are genuine, and wondered if anyone knew for sure who printed facsimiles, and if they had modern markings/dates on them somewhere to denote them as copies ?

    I have about 100. Titles; Daily Mail, News Chronicle, Daily Herald, Daily Sketch, Evening Standard, Evening Time, Sunday Express, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, etc..

    Any suggestions ?

    Slainte, Alan.

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  2. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    do they have a musty type smell?
    how does the paper feel crisp or delicate ?
     
  3. aramsay

    aramsay Junior Member

    Only very slightly. They are only yellowed slightly round the edges, but most facing sheets are still good newsprint-white.
     
  4. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    How do I know they're real?
    . Once you have become accustomed to the appearance and unique "feel" of genuine old printed items, you'll find it easy to spot the few fakes that exist. The distinguishing features to look for are always the kind of paper and the method of printing. It is essentially impossible to produce an exact replica of an old newspaper. The costs of faking the paper and printing would be extremely high and the result could not pass the inspection of a knowledgeable collector.
    http://www.historicpages.com/nprqna.htm
     
  5. steelers708

    steelers708 Junior Member

    Are they 'full' newspapers or 'parts' of newspapers?

    The reason I ask is that in 1976-77 Marshall Cavendish Partworks published "The War Papers" which was a weekly publication of copies of wartime newspapers telling the story of the war through each issue, with an explanation of the events covered in the newspaper on the outer cover(see picture below). Each issue covered a couple of papers but only reproduced the first 4-6 pages of each 'newspaper'.
     

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  6. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Hi steelers708,

    I'm glad you made that point, it was something I was thinking about earlier. There have been a number of similar reproductions over the years, another example being Images at War.
     
  7. ceolredmonger

    ceolredmonger Member

    Also - Are there any 'PM visits Barbed Wire Factory' or other 'slow news day' cover stories? In my experience it is rare for anyone to collect 'big' story only papers without there being evidence of them being properly looked after as a collection (e.g. not quarter folded or stored in card covers). Most old newspapers found in attics etc are a random collection or everything from a period of time. Where they relate to a specific person/campaign/event it tends to be inside columns which carry the theme (8th or 14th Army are typical ones - collected by family of someone serving).

    Keith
     

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