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Here is a page I made for my forgery collection .The best way to identify most fakes and forgeries is to do a side by side scan .Many websites show fakes or forgeries but not a side by side example .  |
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Didn't know anyone had bothered to forge Italian postage dues. Always surprised to see how often incompetent forgers ignore the perforation count. |
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Hi Floortrader, thanks for posting the Itallian dues. Were any of the fakes with watermarks? |
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1847bill-----none of the forgeries have watermarks.......I'll make a note on my pages.thanks |
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Floortrader,
Is there any chance of a scan of the back of the last 1L. stamp,
Okka
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Here is a scan of the difference between the early printing [the two center stamps }and the first stamp and last stamp are the later prints in bolder colors .These are footnoted in the Scott's Classic .  |
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Finish the first of two pages of postage due stamps ,this scan doesn't show the color differences too well ,especial the dull colors of the early printings .  |
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Floortrader,
did you forget about showing the back of the last stamp on your first scan.
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Here is the last page of the Italy 1870-1925 postage due stamps ,notice that I have the 50,60,1 lire ,2,5 and 10 lire in brown but the Scott Classic Catalog only list the 60 centesimi as brown .  |
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Now on to the Heligoland stamps ,the problem with them is you need a blacklight to notice the difference in the printings . |
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Floortrader,
they are all catalogued in Gibbons except for the 50c. which is only catalogued as Magenta & Orange.
Could you show a larger scan of the 50c. as well as the back of the IL. which I have already asked twice for,
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| Edited by okka - 02/14/2013 9:17 pm |
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Floortrader,
sorry,
I just checked and the 50c. Brown & Magenta is listed in Gibbons,
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Floortrader,
The stamp looks genuine, are you sure it is without watermark.
A scan of the reverse should prove it,
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Posted 02/13/2013 08:19 am
