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All Forums Category: General Philatelic Discussions (Non Country Specific) Forum: Cinderellas

Identifying Epirus Forgeries

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Posted 11/11/2022 11:49 am

I recently came across a propaganda stamp from Epirus which Scott vol 2b identifies as post-1920 (design features a double-headed eagle). With it was a 1905 forgery (map of Crete) noted in stampforgeries.com. Can anyone tell me what these other two are that were with them?

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Posted 11/11/2022 12:26 pm

The bottom two? Check out Bavaria 1920, and then the German overprints of the same year.

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Posted 11/11/2022 3:32 pm

http://goscf.com/t/82255#753779 br /

I believe yours are forgeries, requires confirmation.

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Posted 11/11/2022 4:15 pm

If they're forgeries, they're very poor ones. No text, no overprinting. Looks like wrong paper, maybe even wrong perfs. Not sure what they are. Some sort of color trial, maybe?

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Posted 11/11/2022 4:33 pm

I have had them as Cinderellas for years.
but never confirmed.
I agree with your observations.

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Posted 11/11/2022 4:52 pm

Many thanks for the very quick identification - yes image wise they are identical to Bavaria 1920 von Kaulbach's "Genius" Scott #251 and #252. The perfs seem to be right but since they are completely blank and are on brown paper... colour proofs are the most likely perhaps?

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Posted 11/14/2022 4:08 pm

Followed up on the Bavaria lead with Evert Klaseboer who I found online - has created an online catalogue of forgeries etc. - and he reported that these were used for advertising - so what I have are blank versions of these. His catalogue has a couple of examples, one he forwarded to me. I'm going to purchase his catalogue as it looks very useful.

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