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"Jersey 1942" Nazi Overprints On UK Definitives

 
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Posted 06/25/2013   1:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Joseph Harris to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I didn't look closely at the photo on an auction I won for some UK stamps with overprints. I received yesterday an envelope with these UK definitives (KGV, KEVIII and KGVI) with two different overprints, one says "The Bluff Charta" and the other "Jersey 1942" with a swastika.

I spent a while Googling last night and found that the Germans printed low value KGVI stamps with small anti-communist and anti-semitic details, overprinted with "The Bluff Charta" and they're extremely rare. These stamps don't have the sickle and hammer in the corner, or the star of David on top of the crown, so they're not those. Plus there are postmarks on some that are far more faded than the overprints. So I'm guessing they were overprinted long after the 1940's.

The others are more confusing to me. I found mentions of low value UK definitives overprinted with a swastika and "Jersey 1940", but I could find no mention of 1942. And the Germans didn't use overprinted stamps during the occupation of Jersey, if I understand what I've read correctly.

So what exactly do I have, and are they only worth keeping as a curiosity?

I think you can view the scan at this link
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxR...?usp=sharing
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Posted 06/25/2013   2:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add yakboomer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I tried the link and I get "Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist."
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Posted 06/25/2013   2:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Joseph Harris to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ok, I think I fixed it
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Posted 06/25/2013   4:04 pm  Show Profile Check Rileysan's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Rileysan to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I am looking in Michel for these "Jersey" overprints, but don't see them. There were a few stamps issued during the German occupation of Jersey, but these are not them. My first thought is that these could be "fantasies". However, this needs a little more research before drawing that conclusion.

Brian
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Edited by Rileysan - 06/25/2013 4:04 pm
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Posted 06/25/2013   4:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add PostmasterGS to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The swastika overprints are modern fantasies.

The "Bluff Charta" stamps are fakes of the German "Bluff Charta" propaganda forgeries/overprints.
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Posted 06/29/2013   5:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add pckmcc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
How did you get a picture uploaded to Google and then get a link for it for all of us? I was trying earlier today without any luck. I am trying to get a scan of a San Marino sheet uploaded for a post.

Thanks!
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Posted 06/29/2013   6:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Halfpenny Yellow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The third stamp in the image has a machine cancel of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-25, so the overprints are definitely forged.
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