Question: US Confederate States Stamp

Hi!
I am going through an old international album that I won at an auction this weekend. I noticed that there are confederate stamps in this album. When I looked at the back of the stamps they all say "facsimile"on the back. The printing is in a faint ink color, and a couple have a very transparent look. One stampa says "facsimile no. 205"

What does this mean? I feel like these stamps are likely fake? I have no idea. I am new to this still, so sorry if it's a dumb question!

yes unfortunately you most likely only have copies of the stamps.

A pertinent article on the subject of Confederate facsimile stamps may be found here:

http://stamps.org/userfiles/file/AP...ting0111.pdf

And another good link from a few years ago at this site:

https://goscf.com/t/30585

thanks! that's what I assumed (:

fac·sim·i·le
fak#712;sim#601;l#275;/Submit
noun
1.
an exact copy, especially of written or printed material.
synonyms: copy, reproduction, duplicate, photocopy, replica, likeness, print, reprint, printout, offprint, fax; More
antonyms: original
another term for fax.
verb
verb: facsimile; 3rd person present: facsimiles; past tense: facsimiled; past participle: facsimiled; gerund or present participle: facsimileing
1.
make a copy of.