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Mauritius Card Proofs - Genuine Or Fake?

 
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Posted 12/19/2020   5:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Chevelle to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Need help on these two Mauritius "stamps". They appear to be engraved proofs on card. No markings on reverse except a hinge remnant. Thank you for any input. Dave


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Posted 04/22/2021   12:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add hy-brasil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Sorry to report that, in short, they are rather bad forgeries cut from a sheet pretending to show progressive wear. These I've seen before and they are on thin card stock. The heads have strange expressions mostly and are nowhere near correct.

Working to find if their origin was known, I found info back here on SCF:
https://goscf.com/t/55905
Your first item is from the third row in the first link in the OP and your second item is from the second link in the OP. Note these have "Privater Nachdrucke" on the back where yours do not, but I am sure you you can plate yours against these sheets.

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Posted 04/22/2021   08:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add classic_paper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Oof, these are terrible. The portraits might best be described as "cartoonish."
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