Moheli Stamps 1,3,4,5,6

Hi!
I want to show this beautiful stamps from Moheli, SC# 1,3,4,5,6.
All they are MNH with gum.
Hope you to enjoy.

Great looking stamps. I really want to find those nicely used.

Thanks beeSee, those are new.

Never heard of Moheli. After viewing photos, I have another want on my travel list. I just collect US and Canada so at least I'm safe philatelically. Thanks for posting.

Yeap, a lot of strange countries pop up on philatelic issues. Thanks for comments rxman!

Only the 20c looks genuine, judging from the scan. There is a clear line between the rim of the horn to the right of the man and the pile of fruit. In Fournier's fakes, the lower left piece of fruit is merged with the horn.

Wow, greaden... It´s not the scan, horn rim is like in the images, so must be fakes. Do you know where I can get more information? Thanks a lot!

My source is the book by Varro Tyler, Focus on Forgeries. Francoise Fournier was a prolific, well documented, and collectible forger.There are websites devoted to his work. On http://www.geocities.com/claghorn1p...urnierGF.htm, you can see the incriminating detail on these French colonial stamps.

Yeap, I know some forgeries are collectible, like Fournier. Thanks a lot!°

Everything is collectible, by someone. I don't think the Navigation & Commerce forgeries garner much attention (intentionally), but they can make a nice side collection. Completing a collection of them would involve several hundred stamps, so it would be a challenge.

The cornucopia is a good spotting feature. The hand on the staff is another good area to check, as the genuine stamps have good definition of the fingers.

You can check a page quickly by using a known genuine or forgery, and holding it alongside an example you want to i.d. The most-common forgeries vary from the originals. Take the bottom two stamps in the scan. If you hold them side-by-side, I believe you'll see that the perfs don't line up. Sort of close, but not identical.

A good use for a damaged stamp is to use it as a perf guide. You can write on it in a marker and keep it with other i.d. tools on a stock page on the side of your stamp area. Makes a very quick reference tool.

Thanks Cjd, will do that!