Japanese 1875 Stamp. Forgery?

Is this a forgery? If so, any monetary value? What would be the year?

Opinion: Forgery
If the Chrysanthemum has any other than 16 florets, then is a forgery.

Sc#50 1874 1875 (January 1st) 45 sen Goshawk aka Eagle.
Unwatermarked, Perf 9 to 13 and compound.
Ordinary Laid and wove paper.

The three bird stamps, of this emission were issued for use on Foreign mails as the result of the American-Japanese Postal Convention.

Each stamp of the 3, exist with Syllabic letters, i, ro, ha.
Your syllabic letter is i


12sen was wild goose
15 sen wagtail.

Birds or Animals on Japanese stamps, are not necessarily indigenous,
some are selected, if they are thought to evoke romantic associations.

Japanese Postage Stamps
Tourist Library #30

On your stamp there are two Japanese characters, one on either side of the bird, just above ground level. I don't read Japanese, but these are the forger's marks, or signature. Genuine stamps of this issue do not have these two characters.

The tail feathers should be 9 ,yours have 8

That sir ,is a crappy cert. totally worthless . Stamp is ripped , stained and at less than honest .There looks like a perf. added to the bottom near the center bottom .Not a tear but tears {two}

The stamp shown in the link posted by 'bicolor1875' is genuine, but with faults. (And 'Mängel' on the certificate means 'faults' or 'faulty' in a philatelic context, so it is disclosed on the cert.)

That expertizer is one of the (if not currently, *the*) leading expertizer of Japanese stamps who certificates. He is also expertizer for the ISJP for submissions requesting certificates. The ISJP also has an inexpensive 'mini-service' when a collector just wants to know if the item is genuine or not, without requiring a formal certificate. That expert resides in the US.

GOT IT !!!! - Thanks ,certificate issued in the U.S. for a Japanese stamp ,and sold on English language ebay with a Germany language "faulty". With no describtion about its defects in the ebay ad . Yes perfectly honest way to sell it .GOT IT .

For what it's worth, it was issued in Germany, where the expertizer lives. This is not an ISJP certificate, which is clearly indicated and in English, but his own certificate, which is customary for BPP expertizers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bund_..._Pr%C3%BCfer

https://www.collectorsclubchicago.o...-committees/

https://www.bpp.de/en/homepage/

Back to the image in the original post, circled are the 2 characters that indicate this is a forgery, as 'restoman' indicated.

Reading from right to left, they say "sanko" (or "sanko" with a line over the "o", or "sankoo" or "sankou"), meaning "reference".

This is a type of "signed forgery", meaning that somewhere on the stamp it says in Japanese that it's a sample, specimen, imitation, or reference.

A lot of times these characters are quite well hidden in the design and/or obscured by a well-placed forged cancel. Happily, this stamp is a good example of a signed forgery where it's really easy to spot the characters!

Back to the listing with the Eichorn certificate. I hadn't followed through to the ebay listing until now, but here it is (from the US site).

It says at the very top of the description:





https://www.ebay.com/itm/202916922748


For the record, this is certainly not my listing (the seller is in Spain), and I'm not defending anything, just trying to clarify where I thought I could shed some light on the subject.

Great info. Thank you guys. I still have 3 Japanese stamps I'm not able to find online. Maybe someone knows)

The first two are revenues, which I think someone here can help you with. The right stamp is from the 1928 Hirohito enthronement issue, Scott 202.

The First Revenue is #5
1 Sen
Tax 1898-1909 (Set of 13 values)
Note: The 10 yen is catalogued as "Carmine" I am not sure if mine is a colour changeling, or an incorrect stamp. The vignette is correct

Stamp #2 is Tax 1924 (3 Sen Violet) Set of 16 Values.

Cool! Thanks a lot for the details)