Is This Zululand Stamp A Fake?

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?

Fake stamp , never issued with that overprint.
wrong type set "u" too wide ,"D" is too fat ,looks more like a "O"

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.

As floortrader, correctly, posted,




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

These seem ridiculously easy to overprint. Just make up a rubber stamp with standard letters like the real overprints. Those letters have no serifs of other fancy business so that shouldn't be too hard, and apply it to the appropriate stamps, and voila! Maybe a more expensive, even rare stamp to fill an empty space in your album. Maybe you could even use your child's rubber stamp printing kit.

EXCEPT you do need to apply your fake overprint to a stamp that was actually overprinted legitimately, not some other stamp. Oops!

Whoever made this up, either grabbed a completely wrong stamp by mistake, a Jubilee issue 1 1/2 p violet and green, or didn't think this through very well. What goes through the mind of someone is hard to say, but this was not well planned, that's for sure! There's not even a way to imagine a value if it were real since it's a completely unrealistic stamp for this use. Unless [cue mysterious music] . . . perhaps a single mistaken stamp was accidentally overprinted by postal authorities in Zululand. Not likely, though especially since the overprint doesn't match the real o/p's, so not much chance of that.

I've run into this before in old large lots. I believe these weren't created to deceive but rather by the packet trade suppliers to entertain and fill spaces even if those spaces were nonexistent at times.

This will help new collectors understand the differance as I posted earlier . The lettering on the stamp doesn't match what I have in my collection .

The fake's lettering is off , the letters are too big ,the two "U"'s are too wide and the letter "D" is wrong it is too wide .