Canada 12 Penny Black

A high resolution, say 600dpi, scan of the object will determine if it is genuine or not. We know exactly what the genuine looks like with the help of watermark's mouth-watering proof & other hi res scans on the net. How about these to make you drool & want to give up -
http://www.re-entries.com/pence_twelve_pence.html

The thick border around the item in question is not found on the genuine article. I don't need to be an expert on this issue to notice that.

In the case of paper, my Gibbons Red catalogue has 3 listings for the stamp. #4 on laid paper, #9a on thin wove paper & #14a on medium hard wove paper, the latter two only listed as used

I thought this stamp did not exist on wove paper, only laid. That's why there is no Scott #6.

Too bad Rabbit has vanished from this forum. Was curious to see if it was real or not.

Let me step in here a moment- Even the best stamp of this design that money can buy and that mangled one would have still came from the same press no-matter the condition. I say it's a fake and a really bad one at that. Look at the numerals and framelines.. I know, I just realized this is an old post because Lorddenning hasn't attacked me yet...

I did send the stamp to Greene Foundation and, in their opinion, it is a fake. It is interesting to have as a curiosity piece though.

Thanks for the followup, Rabbit.

Oh snap, I was wrong.....Too bad that the wonderful human being is not here to rub it in. My fingers were crossed for you Rabbit. For the record, I completely missed that it was a pence issue.

No worries, Stallzer - I will take his place!



Brian

The above two entries are entirely inappropriate and should be removed.

If you say so sak.

But Brian did make me laugh.

It is practically in the DNA of USA Americans to not be overfond of lords and lordliness.