I've managed to acquire a copy of the 1925 Azerbaijan issue, specifically SC#25. I saw on Stampforgery that the original is bicolor, with a gray-violet and black color, while the forgery is entirely brownish-gray. However, when I looked at Solovyov's catalog, volume III, the photograph shows it not as bicolor but as completely brownish-gray, like the Stampforgery forgery…
The first image is from Stampforgery, the second is from the BigBlue website... BigBlue and the Soloviov catalog show the color of the Stampforgery counterfeit, and Scott says it's two-tone, which is closer to the original Stampforgery version...
I would not be surprised if stampforgery got the two mixed up. That left one has nothing to do with lilac or any tone of lilac, certainly not greyish lilac. Or violet that Scott appears to use (the Russian is t(?)-lilac).
The left image appears to be closer to blue (siniy), which is the word used for the 400 R.
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Posted 06/29/2026 4:27 pm
