My Forgeries Collection

Since I picked up the hobby again and have been acquiring new stamps for my collections, I've come across several forgeries that, over time, have formed a small but striking collection that I'd like to show you. Some, like my first Argentine "shield," I bought thinking they might be originals; others, like the Seguí facsimiles, Fournier's Indian head, or Pedro Arata's lovely "little boats" impression, I bought knowing they were fake. I'm especially pleased with Placido Torres's Peruvian shield with its duck-headed llama, and the Cretan stamp from the 1905 revolution, which I find a beautiful and very well-reproduced stamp in all its simplicity (Colenet says it's a Fournier fake; I'm sure it's fake, but not so sure it's a Fournier one)... I think I've been very lucky to have come across these stamps, as they hold very interesting stories, and it's been very rewarding to classify them...

It's a nice collection! Forgeries can be very useful for collectors. They help sharpen your awareness if you go through enough of them.

I don't know much about German stamps, but these third reich semipostals don't seem right to me...




They are nicely done, and the gum on the back is completely undisturbed, but I do believe they are fake.

One of two blocks with top margin

https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/9071201/



There is variation in the colour that does not appear to exclude that in the previous post.

Your block of 4 is Michel 910, the very last issue of the Third Reich. The genuine stamp does come imperf (same catalog value as perforated) but the catalog does warn that forgeries exist. The forgeries are offset printed; genuine are photogravure.

I know nothing about German stamps, but there seems to be a difference compared to the paper in the photo shown by NSK, and the outer frame also looks slightly different...

NSK's example has no lightning bolts on the epaulets, and the flag is missing the stripes.

The listing does refer to a listed plate error in the "Kragenspiegel."

I will go out on a limb and call the block NSK showed as genuine. If you zoom in on the collar the thunderbolts are obscured by a very neat fuzzy circle. I think the auction house did this to meet the requirement of not showing Nazi symbols. Same with the flag.

The "Eagle's Nest" stamp at the bottom of the first page is based on the design of the Lanman & Kemp Match & medicine stamp.

I was getting ready to type this. I see it often with Nazi antique auctions as well, but usually it's much more blatant, like a black square covering the symbol (which I think is a strange practice after so many years).
I think the auction house should have included this in their title so that no one questions its authenticity.

Thank you for this! The images I've seen are never high res, so it's difficult to know the printing type. It does have these splotches that are consistent with a granular photogravure, easily seen in the darkest parts, but they still look too pronounced in my opinion.

Five new forgeries have appeared in my collection…all of them bought believing they were authentic…The Spanish stamp is a Fournier, and it didn't bother me too much…but the Russian ones really annoyed me…