Hello, Is This A China 46B?

Is this 2mm spacing between "30 and cents."?





Thank you.

You are measuring the wrong thing here. You should be measuring the spacing between the Chinese and roman letters.

Sorry, this is a complete forgery. The original stamp design has mottling typical of a lithograph made using real stone. However rough-looking that is, there is more shading detail in the genuine that on the stamp shown. The lettering is different from yours. The color of the genuine is not what I see here.

The overprint has different characters/typeface from the genuine. The "3" is clearly different as well as the letters in "cents".

See Siegel auction 1152, lots between 1045-1060.

Your pics are poor quality.When you want to show spacing do something like this:

Thank you. Do you think any of these are fake?

For the moment I see the 1st 3 as fake ,wrong forms,curls,pointed forms on the right.They don't fit in any group of printings.

OK, The first 3? The rest look ok? Thank you for your help.

I fear they are all forgeries. The Dowager Empress Issue in dull green lower left with trimmed perfs might be good & the 1897 Large Wide Surcharge on the bright green Dowager;but need a much better photo to confirm.
The 2 last stamps look ok...IMO

Dang, what a bummer.

NO, that's to be expected, a cheer is in order when you finally find something nice, because it doesn't happen often.

but spend some time with books, learn about your area.

I'd suggest you take it as a lesson learned.

It should prove to everyone visiting SCF just how really rare a stamp cataloging (say) $500 and up really is, and how tempting and easy it is for forgers to copy any stamp. It also shows how frequently forgeries show up.

Two lessons that I have learned over the years…

1. Stamps are as common as rocks. I may have a huge pile of rocks but the chances that I might find a gem stone among them is virtually zero.

2. Album weeds (fakes, forgeries) are just like the weeds in my back yard. I never find just one or two and once I find some, I find a lot of them.

Don

Forgers is China are extremely talented. I am still fooled by this China 84 fake I have. I would never pass it on to someone else without telling them though it came back as a counterfeit from PSE. Par the coarse!