Post Your Classic Stamp Forgeries Here.

If you have classic stamp forgeries... please post them here for the world to see.

Thank you

Grandpa was stationed there in the 30's, so Grandma wandered about. I don't know whether she thought these were real or not ... but they're not.

I have more than one thousand on my website with more added every week. Feel free to check it out :-)

http://stampforgeries.com/

Classical Stamps, thank you for the link. As a newcomer to the hobby, it is interesting to see the side by side comparisons. I never really thought much about stamp forgeries until now.

Lubeck



Bolivia



US Confederate postmasters provisional, Memphis Tenn.



Sicily

@ClassicalStamps

In your site, you didn't have SWITZERLAND ??
But you have put in your header the picture of the Dove of Bale !?

That is to say that even your header is a fake, isn't it ?

priatel,

You will find the Basel Dove under 'B' (Basel)

But you're right, Switzerland is not finished / online yet.
I will get to it eventually. My goal is to cover all countries.

Don't know if this is considered classic, but here is Saar B15. Peter Winter forgery. Very, very good and the only "easy" way to tell it's a forgery is the word "faux" by the red arrow, which could easily be overlooked. It can also be removed.

Argentina--CV = 7000 if real

This stamp is worth ~ $7000 unused if the accent is missing on the U

I believe there are only 2 examples of the unused - a single with gum & a block without.

Removing the accent would be simple for a forger.

I believe the actual counterfeits (there are many) were printed by Lange an employee of the printers and you can easily tell them by the narrow C in centavo. The 5c variety requires other verifications

In looking further at the stamp from Argentina.

It is not a Type 1 forgery as there are 71 pearls (hope I counted right) the real one has 71 or 78. The forgery is 81.
Also the hands holding the pole are just 2 parallel lines in front of the pole.

The type 2 forgery the pole hands are in the back, there are no rays outside the inner circle & the circle tends to be uneven.

That said, it is probably a reprint.?
Forgeries can be fascinating. It's been my interest for awhile. The countries I collected have enough to keep you busy a long time.

Last comment on those shown - other matters to attend to for now
The 500c from Bolivia - genuine worth maybe $3000
The forgery seen here was just plain BAD.
The real one has very nice detail.
You can especially see it in the Quinhentos Centavos how uneven & raggedy the letters are

The so-called Missing Die forgeries of the Circulars of Jammu & Kashmir are ubiquitous - well, a lot more common than the genuine stamps

They were supplied from the Jammu & Kashmir Post Office with supplies of genuine types, so were for some time thought to be 'missing' dies. Their true nature was revealed some time after they appeared and began infiltrating collections. It appears crooked officials of the State Post Office saw a way of supplementing their incomes by printing imitations of the genuine stamps, and inserting them into the official supplies.

Here are some examples of the Missing Dies and genuine stamps:

First the ½ Anna type:



The Missing Die is on the left. The two simplest diagnostics are that the leftmost line in the central circle touches the frame of the circle, and the bottom of the letter shaped a little like a '3' immediately above it is curved around to the left, and touches the letter next to it.

The 1 Anna type:



Here, the Missing Die is on the right. The simplest test is to draw a line from the upright line in the central circle. In the genuine types, the line passes between the two letters above it; in the Missing Dies, it points directly at one letter.

The 4 Annas type:



The Missing Die is back on the left hand side. The test is the same as for the 1 Anna value. In the genuine types, the line passes between the letters; in the Missing Die, the line passes straight through a letter.

The Missing Dies aren't the only forgeries of these stamps - just probably the most common. There are also reprints (sometimes quite hard to pick) and 'non-postal' types, which while apparently genuine, never actually saw postal service, and were simply post office experiments

If that hasn't frightened you away from these fascinating stamps, I can heartily recommend them as a study

Hart L. Pierce counterfeit of U.S. Scott R1c. Not a philatelic forgery (the real stamp catalogs less than $1), but rather one created to defraud the government. They usually sell for $250-500.

recently found 1887 North Borneo #36. The real thing is perf 14, forgeries, such as this, are perf 11.5.