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Is This Zululand Stamp A Fake?

 
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Posted 09/28/2026   8:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Stray Feathers to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hi all - I have not posted on the forum for some years but am still active. I keep thinking, "I should go on the forum about that . . ." and now is a good time to ask a question. This stamp appears to be from Zululand, but no such stamp exists in Scott. It appears to be a legit UK 1 1/2d stamp, Scott no.112. The cancel looks like it might be British; I could not find Zululand cancel examples like it. I'm thinking it must be a fake. I think the overprint may have been applied over the cancel but not sure. Anyone seen one like it?
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Posted 09/28/2026   9:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Fake stamp , never issued with that overprint.
wrong type set "u" too wide ,"D" is too fat ,looks more like a "O"
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Edited by floortrader - 09/28/2026 9:47 pm
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Posted Yesterday   11:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add DrewM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I am by no means an expert, but in my catalogue search, I don't think the Great Britain Jubilee issue 1 1/2 p violet and green, if that's what this is, was ever overprinted for Zululand at all, as far as I can tell. So even if you ignore the type face and so on, it's not very likely this is a legitimate stamp for that colony.
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Edited by DrewM - Yesterday 11:35 pm
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As floortrader, correctly, posted,


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never issued with that overprint.


https://gbos.org.uk/postal-agencies/zululand/
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