Early French Stamps With 5cr Overprint

Hi just recently found these few stamps in my old stock book

Can any one give me a more info about them
Image 1
http://www.ebay.com/itm/12126728091....m1555.l2649


Image 2
http://www.ebay.com/itm/12126728270....m1555.l2649



Image 3
http://www.ebay.com/itm/12126728624....m1555.l2649


I can not find anything about these overprints and also
stamp nr 3 usually this issue is perforated.

Any help will be appreciated

They are from Reunion.

Beware of forgeries.

Genuine example for comparison:
(Schwanke Auctions)

ClasicalStamps@ Thanks for a help.

Is there any doubt that they may be a forgeries?

I don't know nothing about them.

If they are real what would be a value on them?

Seems to me that cheep stamps rarely get forged!

It's not "5 CR" - it's 5 C. R I assume that a 5 centimes surcharge on a Reunion issue.

I think image no. 1 may be SG5 - catalogue value ~50 pounds; image 2 is SG6 - ~60 pounds; image 3 - SG56(?) (although I'd second comments above re forgeries) - value <10 pounds.

"Seems to me that cheep stamps rarely get forged!"

That is a common misconception among many collectors. Individual inexpensive stamps don't often get forged, but inexpensive stamps that are part of a set with some expensive values have often been forged. That way a forger can sell a complete set where all the overprints or surcharges match; collectors will often think it must be a good set because they think that "cheap stamps rarely get forged". What's more, many forgeries were done decades ago so they might well look the proper age.

The 3rd image would be SG8 (5c. on 40c red on yellow). SG56 has Reunion in blue under the value tablet. Check out the early stamps at this site:

http://www.stampedia.net/stamp/cata...P/REUNION/en

Gladiators, please post 600 or 1200 dpi images. Without heavy compression. It is very hard to see anything on the small images in your post.

Like revcollector wrote, cheap stamps are also extensively forged.

Sorry I do not have high resolution scanner

This is all I can do