Japanese Occupation Malaysia - Forgery?

Japanese overprint on a George V stamp ! A forgery? Help is welcome! Cor.

The overprint is a type 2 of the 9 different types.
Type 1 & 2 were used in Singapore.
I think it looks genuine.

In Scott, this stamp with overprint is listed under Straits Settlements with catalogue number N12.

It is not a cheap stamp and it wouldn't surprize me if the overprints had been forged. I don't know enough to be able to tell if your example is real or forged.

Jan

Can you repost it, but in-focus?

Here a more in focus picture of the same stamp. Hope it helps in the problem solving!

The Scott image seems cruder in some way.
The Bleeker Booklet offers this
(For Dutch East Indies)

Thanks rod222. My doubt was that the overprint is on a much older George V stamp, not on an Edward stamp as usual.

Shouldn't the chop be in red? It also looks like a British colonial era cancel which wasn't used by the occupying Japanese administration.

I think it's a forgery.

1. That looks like Scott 192, which was issued from 1921-1932. The Japanese occupation stamps should be on Straits Settlement stamps issued from 1936-1941, which say Malaya at the top.
2. I agree with Rod that the overprint is a Type 2 (or B depending on which monogram you use), however the Type 2 overprint on 12c Straits Settlements is only known in red.
3. A black overprint is known on the 12c, but it is Type 1, which is significantly different from this.

Sorry - I meant I agreed with perf12 on the Type 2

Thank you Stampdoc, my idea also is that a occupational overprint on a George V stamp is highly improbable!