The Most Terrible Forgery I Have Seen Today.

This one is a Spiro Brothers forgery of the "crown and posthorn" series 3c stamp of 1874. The genuine stamps are on watermarked paper, and the lettering is sharp and clear. Most notably, the Spiro forgeries lack a hyphen between "DANSK" and "VESTINDIE".

From Varro Tyler's Focus on Forgeries, "Within two years of their appearance, the five original values of this definitive series first issued in 1874 were imitated by the Spiro Brothers in Hamburg, Germany. The original stamps were printed by typography (letterpress). The forgeries, which are still common, were reproduced by lithography."

My most terrible forgery of the day is

German Southwest Africa 1 Mark




Uuugggh makes me cringe - anyway off to my forgeries collection

Rich

Seller claiming it is a wrapper.When in fact it is with a forged stamp (Parma Governo Provvisoro 1859, 9 centesimi) and cancel.Bogus wrapper.There are many forgeries on the market.Genuine stamps used on covers or newspapers are scarce.

Cobra bar cancel on Gwalior QV 2A6p
Seller wants 80.00 GBP.....silly

Why is it a "terrible forgery"?

Gwalior SG12
This one I have...

Why is the eBay stamp a "terrible forgery"?

at 80.00 GBP it can only be a forgery!!

Since the "terrible forgery" stamp in question mysteriously got vanished, here it is.



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203352380099

For the record, this stamp is absolutely genuine in all aspects–the base stamp, the overprint and the cancel.

The stamp is Gwaliyar 1896 2A6P SG 23 with Gupta type 13 barred circular cobra cancel.

The 2A6P denomination was exclusively used on registered letters with ½A/6P being the basic letter postage for weight upto 5.83gm (½ tola), the rate in effect from Jul 1,1885 to Mar 31,1905 and 2A was the registration fee per article from Jul 1,1885 to Apr 23,1922.

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Sardinia 40c rose Sc 3 (Sassone 3). A colour photocopy with aspirations to be a $4000 CV stamp.

Pretty much everything from this seller. The Sweden first issues are especially bad... Looks like a bunch of the rest just have bad cancels.

As soon as I see this, my "Scam" alert is flagged,
I immediately discard and look elsewhere.

"Terrible Forgeries of Indian Feudatory States Stamps"



https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224476075628

Seller: theforeigncoinman/Paul Farrell

If anyone wants to flood this thread with actually "Terrible Forgeries" rather than genuines dubbed as forgeries, the go to place is the eBay store of the seller msksur68.

Here are some gems.