Csa Stamp - Some Additions To My Collection

Recently won this collection of CSA stamps and I'm pretty thrilled about it.
I saw in the sellers image one obvious forgery, what Dietz calls 'toothless old man'. Since I also collect forgeries, I' was very interested.
Arrived yesterday.



#2, #4 stone 2, #7 Richmond printing on local paper, #8
three #11 (one early Archer & Dale printing and two later Keatinge & Ball, #12 Keatinge & Ball printing
On the bottom row, #14 unissued, 3 New York forgeries and a #11 forgery referred to in Dietz as 'toothless old man'



I found the grouping also included 3 New York forgeries. These were created by altering the 10¢ Altered plate, and can be discerned by the short horizontal middle strokes on the F and E in FIVE, and also, I've notice in all I've ever seen a small dot to the upper right of the upper left six pointed star. Also, according to Kimbrough, the #11 was never printed in this green colour.

Part of my Christmas bonus well spent!

Nice collection James.

Dianne

These are fascinating issues, thanks for sharing. Was this an ebay auction win?

I've always wanted to collect the CSA stamps, but the forgeries deterred me. I'm thinking it over again, now.

Tempting.

I am one of those people who put these back for a rainy day but have never gotten around to working with them. If I don't get to them soon, it will be up to the 'next guy' to go through them.
Don

Hi all. Yes, this was an ebay win. Got them for about $10 per stamp. More than I usually bid, but like I said, my wife let me keep some of my Christmas bonus, so why not!
The first CSA stamp I ever bought turned out to be a fake (a Springfield facsimile), but I've come to love the bogus as much as the real thing.
Nice page studebaker. Terrific colour variations on your 11/12s

Do you know the seller on ebay ?
How did you authenticte them ?

Hi sleepy. No I didn't know the seller. He's in Amsterdam, and his ebay listing even read 'no guarantees'.
All I can say is RESEARCH. Look and read. I'd recommend the New Dietz Confederate States Catalogue (1986), I got one for Christmas after borrowing it from the VGG (Vincent Graves Greene/Harry Sunderland) library in Toronto over and over again. Also websites of Dr JL Kimbrough and Patricia Kaufmann are musts to bookmark.
A lot of folks, like you, are deterred from CSA stamps because of the forgeries. I say embrace them!! Its all part of the history.

http://www.jlkstamps.com/webpage/index1.htm
https://www.trishkaufmann.com

I will note that many of the links on Dr Kimbrough's site seem unresponsive. Perhaps you'll have better luck.

Fascinating stuff ! Material for a whole new approach to philately.
Thanks, jamesw