Otto, TIP: try and learn to crop your images. The black background is an improvement, but we don't need 5 images of the same thing, accurate images help us to help you.
Opinion: Looks to me like a "colour changeling" albeit, I have never seen a stamp go from blue to bistre. Usually depending on the pigments blue to purplish.
There would be no need for a forger to do such a thing.
There has been Light or chemical damage (soaking etc)
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